Haunted Realism (Ewa Juszkiewicz)

This poster featuring Untitled (after Jan Adam Kruseman) (2020) by Ewa Juszkiewicz was produced in 2022, in conjunction with Haunted Realism, a group exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London.

Haunted Realism’s focus is a sense that the aspirations of modernity are now “lost futures”—perceptible only as ghostlike traces of their original formulations. The exhibition examines some of the ways in which artists have approached this condition by confronting the accelerated flow of images in contemporary media culture and the proliferation of “non-places” that we increasingly inhabit. Juszkiewicz’s surreal composition interprets a work by the Dutch portrait painter of its title, veiling the subject’s head and face in an elaborate swirl of colored fabrics.