Littoral Enfolding

^{*Currently exhibited at Mudam Museum of Modern Art}

For nearly two decades, the Polish-born UK-based artist Magda Stawarska has been exploring the threshold of memory, the sanctioned shape of history and the active experience of listening. Grounded within a practice she frames as ‘inner listening,’ her works, spanning sound and performance, moving image, photography, painting and printmaking, expose overlooked and contested narratives. Littoral Enfolding (2024) layers textile, print and photographic processes to create a dreamlike coastal landscape that merges bodily and environmental forms. The work evokes the intertidal zone—a shifting threshold between land and sea—with textures of fabric, lace and rope entangling with organic matter, suggestive of migration, memory and care. A garment-like form stretches across the composition, simultaneously recalling a shoreline and a resting body, while the tiled band running through the wall references vernacular architectural motifs, anchoring the scene within domestic and regional histories. Through its material density and subtle layering, Littoral Enfolding speaks to the porousness of the borders between bodies, environments and histories and the ways in which they fold into one another over time.