Esther Rzewnicki (b.2001) is a visual artist and filmmaker from Brussels, Belgium.
On the intersection between planned functionality and human consciousness, she draws the viewer into urban landscapes, old houses, public spaces, moving vehicles exploring the experience of space and motion. She reels the human body in, challenging its presence in space or extending it into vehicular objects, creating hybrid forms and perceptions of humans, built structures and vehicles.
In thoroughly planned spaces of urban landscapes, we find ourselves in the midst of predetermined paths, rules and choreographies. Motions are inherently designed to be functional.
Exposure to signs, symbols, specific objects and (social) structures inevitably shapes the landscape of our subconscious. These visual languages, created to communicate without words, subtly influence how we navigate public spaces.
With an intuitive and explorative manner of creating, she react to things which are already there. Existing concepts and objects become the pillar which her work stands on.
Her works result in explorations of realities outside of her own. By focusing on overlooked objects and ideas, she reaffirms their presence and invites viewers to see their interconnectedness within a wider network of existence, rethinking the nature of the subconscious in the everyday. She seeks to transport her viewers to a place in motion; to transmit a feeling of forgetting the journey while being on the road.
Working with several media including moving image, sound, sculpture and drawing, her work seeks to create small moments of recognition, offering new ways of perceiving and relating to the urban landscape.
In 2024, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.