"Among the riddles offered to each of us by our short lives, the one that arises from the presence of masks, it probably contains the greatest load of anxiety and meaning. Apart from naked faces, which are the only open window to the chaos of alien or hostile appearances, nothing is human in an incomprehensible world".

                                                                                                                                                           Georges Bataille

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The work presented here is a series titled: "Masks and Figures" in the form of a spatial installation. The work consists of a series of graphics and spatial paper masks on a scale of 1:1. Creating characters became not only my diploma thesis (2019), but also a form of personal self-portrait. The series was developed using my own original technique and received a distinction from the Academy of Fine Arts. When creating the presented installation, I thought about the issue of self-creation, about the way of presenting oneself as someone or something. The time it took me was about a year. Initially, I made a cast of my own face, which I used as a mold for the prints. Then, I stamped soaked sheets of paper on it, which hardened when all the water evaporated. The cards were prints, they contained my face, its facial expressions, my graphics or drawings, or random texts from fragments of books... This is how masks were created - a light series of "embossments" or a complex portrait of myself. What I associated with the process of creation was something like taking off one's own face and capturing thoughts and images. My head became my matrix for the interior, the moments inside me written on fragile, impermanent pages. I also saw in them various aspects of my own personality or identity, some of them known to me, some of them not. Perhaps one could be tempted to say that masks combine what we know with what is unknown to us