Phase Gallery is pleased to announce Soft Syntax, a solo exhibition by Gosia Wojas, whose research and practice focus on the entanglement of materiality, performativity, and embodiment through sculpture, video, installation and writing.

In Soft Syntax, Wojas presents a new group of works in which body no longer remains a fixed subject, but is a shifting syntax—one that loops through stories of generational trauma, soft refusal, art historical archives and literary depictions of crowds (ei. Jan Matejko's depiction of Battle of Grunwald, Fransisco Goya's Disasters of War prints, Stanisław Wyspiański's pastel studies of body gestures, and Elias Canetti's Crowd and Power).

Materials such as silicone, steel, and marble construct a language grounded in utilitarian progress towards economic efficiency and bourgeois illusionism of digital movements. Yet, the silicone forms reference prosthetics and remnants of failed speculative robotics that remain ambiguous, glitchy and tender, whereas the marble piece articulates a paradoxical possibility - as a metamorphic form of limestone, it is shaped by the slow sedimentation of earth’s detritus over millions of years. These materials do not merely support form—they carry memory, conflict, and contradiction. They embody a quiet resistance to the efficiencies they were designed to serve, revealing instead the soft data of longing, rupture, and becoming.

Soft Syntax is not a simulation of life; it is an invocation of what persists beyond the machine—a poetics of resistance, vulnerability, and survival. What systems obscure remains animate beneath the circuitry.

Gosia Wojas holds an MFA in Art with a Critical Theory emphasis from UC Irvine and a BFA from CalArts. Her work has been exhibited at the Arsenale Nord in Venice, the University Art Gallery at UC Irvine, and the ONE Archives in Los Angeles, amongst others. Her writing has appeared in journals such as MATTER- Journal for New Materialist Research, Flat Journal, and Material-i-ty, and she has presented at academic conferences in Poland, Belgium and the US. Wojas is also the founder of Projekt Papier and The Absent Museum, with past projects at institutions including Łanźnia Art Center, CalArts, and the Women's Center in Los Angeles.

Artist Website: https://gosiawojas.com/