Author Archives: jolanta

I was born in 1979. I current live and work in Bucharest. I am an artist and sometimes a curator. I studied photography and video at the University of Arts in Bucharest. Drawing on the environment and influenced by Bucharest life, I document the urban through my photography. I am the founder of Bukres blog […]

This is a piece of work that focuses on women, on how they are represented in classical art, indeed on the “codes” that surround and determine their representation, from the Renaissance to today. I chose to observe the backgrounds that encase, and to some extent determine, the way women are portrayed, from a Florentine countryside to the overwrought interior […]

One may notice that Zhang Hua always creates his works in between hard and soft material. He transforms a classical sculptural entity into an origami shell or melting paste; he elongates, crushes, or reduces the scale to make various contrasts. His work involves the Chinese traditional wisdom of void over solid, perceiving the massive from […]

London’s National Gallery houses over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. They are arranged by period: 1250-1500, 1500-1600, 1600-1700, and 1700-1900. As might be expected of an iconic national asset, and one which attracts as many as five million visitors a year, the treasure it accommodates, like that of New York’s Metropolitan, […]

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 […]