KAROLINA JABŁOŃSKA supporting ABORTION DREAM TEAM (ADT)
A landscape with a shoe and glove, 2023
oil on wood panel
20 x 18 cm (7.9 x 7 in.)
€3,500
“Poland is one of the few countries in the world where abortion has been largely banned since the 1990s.
It is an unreal situation and I can't stand what is going on in the XXI century in the middle of Europe. In such circumstances, as a woman, I feel frightened, humiliated, and unprotected.”
— Karolina Jabłońska
Photo by Tomasz Kręcicki
ARTIST
Deeply felt and keenly observed, Karolina Jabłońska’s paintings often depict everyday situations that capture the awkwardness of certain common activities. As the artist has put it, “the paintings come from small sensory and emotional impressions.” Yet, the personal is also political: metaphors for emotional states, inherent in these paintings are references to the role of women, the existential threat to their bodies and restrictions imposed by political realities.
“This painting is something new for me,” the artist writes of A landscape with a shoe and glove. It is a departure from Jabłońska’s large scale works, which often include striking portrayals of her own features. Rainy landscapes are a recent addition to her work, a comment on the mental and physical exhaustion that are times at the core of the human condition.
Jabłońska was born in 1991 in Niedomice, Poland and lives and works in Kraków. Residencies and fellowships include Scholarship in Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze UMPRUM, LIA Programme Residency, Spinnerei Leipzig, Fern Residency, Brussels, Fores Project Residency, London. The artist has been included in group exhibitions at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA; Kunstverein Schattendorf, Schattendorf, Austria; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland.
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