Author Archives: jolanta

My diminutive paper creations hover between the mediums of sculpture and collage. Delicately fashioned out of second-hand material collected from junk shops and my own printed media, they create a space where the real and imagined co-exist, where fact and fiction collide. Each piece is a myriad of textures, shapes, and lettering, reflecting my interest […]

The work 45 Minutes as Object takes place in two cities, Cape Town and Paris, on two separate continents. It can be seen as part video installation and part performance piece. The final work consists of ten TV monitors, five playing footage created and captured in Paris facing five playing footage created and captured in […]

In the past, my drawing and sculptural work has dealt with structures and mapping, using a linear perspective and a simplicity that pares down surfaces to create an enhanced pictorial order within the frame of architecture. It is an obsessive treatment of space, meticulously recording every block, passageway, and texture on such a large scale […]

I’ve always made pictures. My transitory adolescence from New England, to Southern California to England, and now back on the East Coast, developed in me an obsession with capturing the ephemeral. I began to make films that explored the temporal experience of evanescence, like a fleeting glance or a memory. Eventually I tried to stop […]

To a certain degree, my works are illustrations of the nightmarish and of the fanciful. I am not on the lookout for images to support an ostensive world of fantasy. Most of all, I am inspired by the everyday. This disposes me to a greater degree. It isn’t so much the extraordinary events but rather […]

I was born near Halloween, and according to some New Age book, on the “Day of Research.” Which is fitting considering as an artist I am constantly searching through books, stacks of images, text hunting and gathering. If I weren’t an artist, maybe I’d fancy forensics. My work is the result of combining all of […]

A year and a half ago I escaped city life to work on organic farms in California, Argentina, and Chile. I hiked 700 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington and Oregon. Living on the land, surrounded by big trees, mountains, and animals, with my feet on soil rather than cement, I developed a […]

My practice involves the formulation and performance of an artistic practice of life. The basis of this artistic practice of life is the individual subject. Approach in this manner, an artistic practice of life is intrinsically linked to ethics—how should the individual subject live? Of equal importance to ethics are the politics and political potentials […]

My work has taken various forms throughout the years, from early video installations using loops and repetition while still a student at the Royal College of Art in London to drawing and 3D installations more recently. The obvious recurrent theme is the use of absurd situations or uncanny scenes depicted to suggest a deep and […]

My work has a close relationship with the technology of a special makeup. It was in development for about ten years simultaneously with a studio at a university. The work of the special makeup is continued independently after that. The work of this special makeup begins from molding a human body, such as a player’s […]