The exhibition presents a series of figures emerged as an experiment with the conventions of sculptural portraiture and serves as a light-hearted distancing from the academic traditions of sculpture practised in art schools. The figures are kind of avatars of the people who inspired the artist during her creative process. This is a contemporary interpretation of the sculptural portrait. The form of the sculptures was created by Dorota Piekarczyk- a sculptor and ceramic artist, while the colour and decorative designs were developed by her collaborator and friend Sławomir Nitschke, a tattoo artist and graduate of Painting at the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. This exhibition is thus a unique artistic collaboration. The tradition of decorating the body with tattoos goes back many centuries, but Dorota Piekarczyk and Sławomir Nitschke bring this motif into the realm of sculpture — something never seen before! Dorota Piekarczyk – born in 1985. A graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Art High School in Opole, specialising in ceramics. She received a scholarship from the Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture in 2010 and won the First Prize in the Faculty Scholarship Competition in 2011. Since 2018, she has run the Wytwórnia Bakcyl ceramics studio in Poznań. The studio is one of the winners of the city’s Łazarz Open Culture Zone competition. Sławomir Nitschke – born in Poznań on August 12th, 1986. A graduate of the Poznań High School of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Painting at the University of Arts in Poznań. He has been tattooing for 16 years and has run the Skull and Dagger tattoo studio in Poznań for 13 years. Besides tattooing, he also works as an illustrator and, for the past year, a ceramic artist. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including those in Warsaw, Konin, and Łódź. Funded by the City of Poznan #poznansupports