82 x 35 x 67 cm 2026

The sculpture Autoreification teases the subconscious desire to climb to the top of the career ladder and achieve a huge success, including financial success. Its form refers to Christian reliquaries, objects of worship designed to store the remains or objects belonging to saints. The agency contained in the title of the work is, of course, a paradox. No one becomes a saint during their lifetime, nor is it an autonomous decision. The cult of the individual is directly linked to external validation. Making yourself a relic is therefore an impossible act, and the physicality of the sculpture with its seemingly luxurious and expensive materials emphasises the fake in the common phrase: fake it till you make it. Wyszkowska’s attempt at making relics out of your own person can also be interpreted as creating your own self in relation to an object, or indeed, as an object. Moreover, it is a conscious and conspicuous act of self-creation. 

Gabi Skrzypczak & Ida Dziublewska