Acclaimed Polish-Australian photographer Magdalena Wozniak presents her latest solo exhibition, Last Tango, at Artspace, Jan Manton Gallery in Teneriffe from 15–21 December 2025, with an official opening night on Thursday, 18 December.
Last Tango is a vivid photographic exploration of the Argentinian tango — a dance of precision, trust, and sensual intensity. Through her lens, Wozniak isolates fleeting moments of connection, movement, and emotion, transforming live performance into still images that pulse with rhythm and intimacy.
“The Argentinian tango is movement rendered into art with split-second precision, wild complexity and subdued, potent sensuality,” says Wozniak. “In this collection, I wanted to capture the fleeting gestures — the trust, the anticipation — that make the tango so powerfully human.”
Shot in Buenos Aires in January 2025, Last Tango extracts pivotal moments from live performances, capturing the sweep of fabric, the geometry of intertwined bodies, and the vivid tones that animate the stage. The series invites viewers to consider the tension between the fragment and the whole — evoking the essence of the dance without surrendering its full context.
James Erskine, Director of Liverpool Street Gallery, describes Wozniak’s work as “a masterclass in stillness and motion — she distils the raw emotion of performance into photographs that breathe with life.”
Magdalena Wozniak (b. 1976, Warsaw) is a Polish-Australian photographer whose work fuses traditional technique with contemporary photographic practice. With over 25 years of experience, Wozniak has exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions in Mallorca, Spain, and group shows across London, Melbourne, and Sydney.
A graduate of the University of Western Sydney, RMIT, and Kingston University London, with further studies in Art History and Theory at the University of Sydney, Wozniak brings a refined understanding of composition and art history to her photographic storytelling. She currently lives and works in Sydney.
