Madeleine Skrzynecka / The quiet archive of touch

The Quiet Archive of Touch

Time does not disappear, it changes its form. It loosens its edges and returns as feeling rather than fact. These works move within that quiet transformation, where the past is no longer reachable, yet never fully gone.

The figures exist in a suspended moment, neither then nor now. They emerge as traces of time passing through the body, through closeness, through absence. What is remembered is not an event, but a sensation: something once held, once shared.

This archive does not attempt to stop time. It listens to it. It gathers what remains when moments fade, soft impressions, lingering warmth, the beauty of what cannot be repeated.

Here, nostalgia is not a longing to return, but an awareness, that what has passed continues to shape how we feel, how we see, how we remain.

Blue and yellow speak in the language of time. Yellow holds the warmth of moments as they were lived, light, closeness, presence. Blue carries those same moments after they have passed, softened into memory and feeling. One belongs to immediacy, the other to ref lection.

Together, they form nostalgia: not a sadness for what is gone, but a quiet recognition that beauty survives by changing its shape. What once glowed continues to deepen. The past does not disappear, it settles into color, into feeling, into us.

Madeleine Skrzynecka
Based in Madrid.
Graduate of the Faculty of Painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland (2019-2024) and a former participant of Erasmus Programme at Universitat
Politecnica de Valencia in Spain. Creating mainly in the medium of painting but also exploring the field of film and photography.
Her works are currently shown in The Zofia Weiss Gallery in Kraków, which is the part of Wojciech Weiss Foundation and a close partner of Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków.
In 2024 she was the part of group exhibition in BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice. (Melancholic Figures of Longing) – show as the result of diploma.
February - July 2025 - Roamer Project in Madrid, „Val d’Aran Edition”.
August/September 2025 – Summer 2025 Curated Collection – “Contemporary European Art to Collect” – Group exhibition in Galerie Villa Gabrielle in Paris.
29-31st of August 2025 - Galeria Domanze in Poland - group exhibition as a part of Festival of United Arts in Domanice Castle. 20th of November - 14th of December 2025 - Materna y Herencia Art Gallery in Madrid - solo exhibition “Echoes of the blue hour”.

Upcoming solo March 2026 - Loww Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
2nd-8th of February 2026 - JustResidence, art residency in Miguelanez, Spain followed by 5th-8th of March 2026 - JUSTMAD Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.