Author Archives: jolanta

When I decided to come to New York, I thought that I represented Korean art students in America. I had nothing, and knew no one in New York, but I just believed in myself. I had a hard time studying in New York. I had to fight against language barriers, culture shocks, and isolation. It […]

I began painting in the streets of my hometown, Toulouse, France, in the early 1990s. My sensual “poupee” characters, painted with brush and acrylic paint as opposed to spray paint, powerfully stood out from the rest of the male-dominated graffiti pieces seen throughout my city. The characters’ sensuality, femininity, and unique style gained recognition and […]

My more recent paintings are all self-portraits, and I never initially intended to paint only myself and have them be recognized as that. I’ve avoided self-portraits because I’d viewed the practice as an attempt to provide too selective a picture of the artist’s soul rendered with varying degrees of what becomes a forced internal expression. […]

In the search for anonymous images there is no beginning or end, nor rare images, only incandescent projections which subjugate and instantly become absolutely indispensable. AAnonymes.org is one of the many histories of contemporary photography. AAnonymes.org shows “abandoned” photographs, antiquities of a reality that has ceased to exist in its original state, images which, like […]

Looking at the absurdities and conflicts of living in an urban society in transition of “living 200 years in the past and 30 years in the future” simultaneously, my works broadly address the visual and cultural overlaps of language, image, and taste that create the most fantastic collisions. Looking at this phenomenon with humor, my […]