Alicja Kuzmycz is an Artist and Creative Director working in Melbourne Australia, currently studing for a Masters in Fine art at RMIT University.

Her art practice explores concepts of narrative structure and feminine identity.

The paintings are inherently theatrical and filmic in style. Each canvas is like a film still or key frame - a pause in time. However, unlike film, the painting is never going to pan across the scene, the viewer is left to build the story around the fragments they are presented with. There is an implication that something going on outside the frame, the story seems to be more about what is unseen - what the viewer brings to it.

"... viewers have a powerful urge to uncover or invent narrative... painting, like film, establishes an interactive viewer-object relationship that invites intertextual and contextual elaboration."
Robert Rosen, Notes on Film and Painting.

Exploring that urge for narrative, Kuzmycz's work plays with how much content can be stripped back, while still engaging the viewer. Also, how meaning can be manipulated through arrangement and juxtaposition.

Kuzmycz commonly works with femme fatale characters in her paintings, particularly referencing the Film Noir genre.

"... strong women trapped in a male-dominated universe, who are willing to use any weapon, including their own sexuality, to level the playing field."
Alain Silver, Film Noir.

This type of character provides Kuzmycz with a playful way to delve into ideas of female representation and the social expectations of women in society.