Karolina Jabłońska is one of the most interesting artists of the young generation in Poland. She is primarily a painter, but also works in the mediums of ceramics and sculpture. At the heart of Karolina Jabłońska's artistic practice is what Lauren Fournier recently described as a self-theoretical impulse: the desire to theorize oneself, as well as work undertaken from an embodied, feminine and precarious perspective. The exhibition Preserves. Works from 2023-24 is a testimony and documentation of the development of self-theoretical and auto-fictional practices in Jabłońska's painting over the past years. The protagonist of Karolina Jabłońska's latest paintings is confronted with the social, political and aesthetic changes that have occurred in Poland - a country whose politics in recent years have become famous for its anti-feminist agenda and various forms of exclusion. The exhibition is accompanied by a book on the artist's art containing essays whose authors measure themselves against Karolina Jabłońska's work in an attempt to grasp the painterly exploration of the embodied self that she undertakes.
A monographic publication on Karolina Jabłońska's work is being published by Distanz Verlag and the State Gallery of Art in Sopot on occasion of the exhibition. Richly illustrated, Some Names Have Been Changed: Works by Karolina Jabłońska, 2023-2024 includes essays by Wojciech Szymański, Robert Kusek and Monika Świerkosz.
Karolina Jabłońska
Preserves. Works from 2023-24
Curated by Wojciech Szymański
May 30 – July 28, 2024
State Gallery of Art, Sopot
Plac Zdrojowy 2, 81-720 Sopot, Poland
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