"Consumerism"is my ongoing project started in 2017.

"Focusing on the progress of the 21st century such terms as, consumptionism simply speaking, excessive consumption, unjustified by the real needs of having, where not social, individual or ecological costs are important. This is related to environmental pollution and mass production. Living in a society we experience feelings resulting from being part of the culture that we have created ourselves, I am interested in these feelings, in the context of mass and unit"

Awards and distinctions related to the series of graphics:

The Gold Medal at the GoSeeAwards 2019 Berlin / Illustration category 11-2019
Exhibition- "Repurpose" Adidas Originals x Creative Debuts in London. 15-08.2019.
Publication Glamor Affair magazine, Milan, 05-2019
Exhibition- Wilson Shaft Gallery in Katowice, Poland."II Review of Contemporary Art" "Nowa Awangarda" 09-03-20.05.2018
GRANT of the Honorable Mention Award for Ello's 2017 Creative Excellence Awards, Los Angeles, United States. 03-2018
Private collections. Warsaw, United States. 2019

Review written by Elena Stanciu from Petrie

"Under the moniker Cityabyss, artist and designer Beata Szczecinska applies a fresh approach to creating visual culture in a world of visual oversaturation. Her art projects Consumerism and Metamorphosis, identified in her rich portfolio as “personal,” do indeed feel very personal to a viewer who, at first glance, must put it all together and charm some type of meaning into revealing itself. Fragmentation and a penchant for the indistinguishable are present in her works, which retain an articulated critical voice, resisting the comfort of abstraction.  Multi-layered and monochromatic, Szczecinska’s works speak to a time and space we recognise with ease. The confusion and alienation of urban life, the sensory overdrive of consumerism, the contradictions of form, content, and intention – they all inform individual and collective experiences of today, as the consumer and the consumed overlap and blend, with images forming new frontiers of the self"