Karolina KOWALSKA (1978), PHOTOGRAPHIES IV; 2022

photograph; 100 x 100 cm
ed. 1/5
Signed, dated, described on the back: Karolina Kowalska/ 2022/ ed ⅕.
The work was presented at an exhibition in the Museum of Japanese Technology MANGGHA in
Krakow 28.09.2022 - 09.10.2022 (two works from the series are in the collection of the Museum of Japanese Technology MANGGHA).

Graphic artist and designer. Her realizations are intermedia, she creates photographs, videos, objects, and site - specific installations, in which she often uses light. In 2023, she received a doctorate in art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. She is a graduate of the same academy's Department of Graphic Arts She also studied film and animation at Hogeschool Gent. In 2006 she was invited to the residency program at Forum Stadtpark - Graz. Since 2009, she has participated in the Artist Pension Trust / Berlin program. In 2010 / 2011 she participated in an artist residency at Location One in New York, organized in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. She is a winner of the artistic scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage Young Poland.
Her works are in the collection of: Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow - MOCAK, Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, Bunkier Sztuki, Artist Pension Trust / Berlin Collection, and in private collections.

ABSTRAKTTROPIK photographs are a series of paintings created through symmetrical reflections, transformations of elements of plant photographs. The fourfold repetition of the image creates a hypnotic depth effect and simulates infinity. The repeated elements of the photograph create a plant-like, spatial ornament; a patern. The work was created within the framework of the environmental doctoral studies at the Faculty of Intermedia, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow The promoter of the project was Dr. Artur Grabowski.