Mia Dudek (PL/PT, b. 1989) is a visual artist born in Sosnowiec, Poland. Her artistic practice encompasses photography and installation, exploring the interplay between architecture and intimacy. She holds a BA from London College of Communications and an MA from the Royal College of Art. Currently based in Lisbon, Dudek has exhibited widely across Europe; her work investigates memory, identity, and daily experiences, contemplating how they shape our understanding of space and belonging.
What happens to a house when memory begins to seep into it? Mia Dudek’s Saturation project approaches the house as an organism, examining the moment that structures – architectural, mental and biological – reach a point of excess. “A system reaches a threshold state when it can no longer contain what it has absorbed,” she describes. “Moisture is not only a material condition but a process of slow infiltration, sedimentation and destabilisation that reveals what lies beneath the surface. Saturation does not signal destruction but transformation: a movement through which the repressed seeps back into visibility, like trauma in the body or damp through a wall.”
