Olga Pedan works using a range of media such as installation, video, photography and painting and often addresses social issues and their social and economic correlations. In Friendly and Swamp, the artist confronts the painting process itself with physical experiences and perception. The coloured lines and surfaces are positioned on the soft white Gesso like delicate tracks on the picture surface and generate new space in which feelings and experiences are expressed as if in a microcosm of underlying emotions.

— Magdalena Koschat