Author Archives: jolanta

Upon entering the group show Bóm at Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, the works of nine extraordinary artists reminded me of a poem that Robert Bly wrote in 1967. A line from the poem reads, “We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight!” It is poignant in depicting the horror and dysfunction of […]

The nuns in the Perpetual Adoration series have been praying on a rotating schedule, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, since 1878. I documented the nuns over 24 hours, photographing each shift change. There are 30 images in total. Each photograph in the series captures one moment in this unbroken chain of devotion, […]

The beating heart is warm, soft, and vulnerable. It is protected in the rib cage consisting of twenty-four ribs. We announce the end of a life by the sentence “His/her heart stopped beating,” which shows the importance of the heart. The heart is amazing, although it’s only an organ of the human body. We say […]

Most of my work is inspired by my experience of everyday life. I recently saw a film Trivial Matters directed by Peng Hao-Xiang, who based this movie on his personal life and his friends’ experiences, which I found very moving. “All you need is tension,” Peng said. “If there’s tension, then you only need a […]

From 2002 to 2004 I have done three pieces of work, drawing inspiration from my sexuality. They are My Emotions and Sex, The Great Wall and Races. The three pieces support each other and show the progression of my thoughts. I wanted to demonstrate the different structures in society through portrayal of diverse subject matters. […]