The exhibition by Paulina Komorowska-Birger titled "OPPRESSION" includes works that are characterized by a distinct aesthetic on one hand, and on the other hand, by the message embedded in the material from which they were created. The artist addresses the incredibly important issue of the oppressiveness of the external world towards the individual, lurking in every aspect of it, leading to oppression, exclusion, and, in extreme forms, annihilation. The artist attempts to communicate with the audience not only through the content and form of the works but also through the material used – glass. The glass objects, delicate and fragile, suspended in the gallery space, compel the viewer to move in a specific way, clearly restricting their freedom of movement. They are like a structural command imposing the viewer's way of functioning within the object's territory. The second context is internal, saturated with symbolism inherent in the presented objects. Rusty scissors hanging on glass threads become a symbol of severance from the world of childhood innocence. They symbolize initiation, circumcision, the transition to adulthood, but also powerlessness in the face of the world, the inability to make free choices due to cultural pressure and symbolic violence. Another work with a similarly persuasive character is a pair of binoculars hanging on glass rods, symbolizing "power in spray," about which Michel Foucault says it is omnipresent, entering every aspect of an individual's life with control that disempowers.

Żywia Leszkowicz-Baczyńska, Exhibitions at Incydent Gallery, UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA No. 7 | 255 | October 2018, p.44