The artist approaches her subjects almost scientifically. She does research, makes notes and sketches and searches long until she has found her picture motifs. A decidedly artistic understanding of the medium of photography that borders on being conservative-like is recognizable in her works. All photographs are created analog, without artificial light. Madejska photographedIdeogram(2007–2009)—a series of eight photographs—under a grey-white overcast sky. The series shows high-rise buildings that appear isolated from their city setting by a concentration on the upper parts of the buildings. All distracting elements are omitted. These portraits of buildings are at once cool and delicate. The colors in the photographs are almost monochrome. A muting of color can be found in almost all her works, also in the latest series,The Order of Solids, begun in 2010. Once again, Madejska isolates her subject matter from its context. The abstract presentation of the pictures, dominated by objects found in public spaces, can to a degree only first be deciphered by the narrow picture margin in which houses and trees can be seen. Madejska is interested in their function as a surface on which to project a cultural context and can be understood in terms of an overpowering and abstracting confrontation with history and its representation. Moreover,The Order of Solidselucidates Madejska’s interest and her devotion to sculpture, to three-dimensionality, and her understanding of photography as a starting point but not the end point of her artist creativity.

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