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The PURO art collection foregrounds creatives whose work speaks to and with the surrounding city, while simultaneously reflecting more broadly on timely social phenomena. Each piece can be admired for its technical excellence, as well as its expressive power in helping make sense of the world around us. The resultant collection is not only for connoisseurs of the visual arts, but also for those who are curious about connecting with their destination’s artistic culture.   

Gorgoyled Guardians, pressed polystyrene, 2024 

Gorgoyled Guardians comes from a series of reliefs in which the artist goes beyond the limits of flat painting, their compositions extending into the depths of the space. To create them, Poniatowski turns to unusual materials, such as faux leather and carpets, construction materials, such as extruded polystyrene, which is an insulator, and everyday objects. Hismaterials evoke the space of the home, in which everyday life goes on and which reflects human presence. On the one hand, these works preserve the memory of people and the traces they leave; on the other, they recall fragments of architecture and the remnants of buildings, giving them the feel of archaeological digs yet to be discovered. This makes hisreliefs specters of the past and the present, they have a totemic quality. Although made of everyday objects that are familiar, they take the form of a chapel that cannot be attributed to any particular religion or culture. They are negatives of reality, bearers of memory, of layered and processed emotions. 

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