Author Archives: jolanta

I humorously, but also ironically, question the existence of contemporary man, belonging to a society, to a world wishing to be global, while simultaneously floating into a fantastic and flashing upheavel. The change is ensured, but how, in which way? As an artist I function like a mirror reflecting the reality, but through my own […]

The world is a man-made illusion. When you care about it, it is real. When you don’t, it becomes an illusion. The materials for making the installation piece Manufacturing Worlds are from a model-making factory that went bankrupt. I bought what’s left of their goods, which included a skyscraper, a plane, a cow, and military […]

I combine different mediums. My work incorporates texts, photography, video and transcripts from audio-recordings, ready-mades, installations, and interventions. I like to use fictions, as well as history. I use photographs to create objects or installations and sometimes I rely on photography for documentation purposes. It became, in time, a supporting element, sometimes as the background […]

I mostly photograph women. I don’t know why but this is the only subject that I consistently feel compelled to document. I always think of my images as a fragment of a larger narrative, and this narrative is a spontaneous reaction to the model (her character, her clothes, and how she projects herself). So in […]

Born in 1964, Caro Suerkemper’s works entangle the onlooker in thoughts about the interaction of perception and wish, enticement and compliance, desire and control, power and helplessness. The Berlin-based artist dresses her keen interest in differences in optical stimuli and shimmering colors; peculiar sketching suffuses the self-representation of her figures. The comic effect in no […]

“Composite sketches” or memory portraits are very interesting from a psychological point of view. What we memorize; how we recall things; why we recall this as opposed to that; why this way; was it like this; is it really like that? While painting, I initially concentrated on re-creating a close-to-real image of a human being […]

At the end of the 90s there was a tendency in the art education in Romania to reach the illustrated ideal in the catalogues, which one could find at the university library. In the local art schools the glossy Western model triumphed of course against the neo-orthodox oriented alternative in the years of freedom, which […]

Performance artists have been enjoying a major resurgence in popularity around the world. Spearheading this renaissance are museums and biennales. And why not. Such one-of-a-kind theatrical events where anything can happen and usually does, is primo entertainment. Here in New York City and environs five major art museums recently played host to a tsunami of […]

Through his particular brand of iconoclasm, Matias Faldbakken spears the premise of today’s pop culture ideology, the territory of the hipster intellectual. His work of the past few years is boldly about negation, challenging modern social mores with a surprisingly novel form of anti-art. His definitive 2009 show Shocked into Abstraction at the National Museum […]