Photography Archives - Karolina Skorek

01 Oct Lux et Umbra – solo show in Katowice Poland

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Karolina Skorek's exhibition "Lux et Umbra - between light and shadow" was opened on the 23.09.2022 in Goldenmark Gallery showroom in Katowice. This exhibition was all aranged by an amazing curator Dagmara Rusak - Giej and her team at the Goldenmark. She handpicked all the works...

12 Jan Alternative memorioes vol3 Crux PHILOLOGORUM

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So far this is last of Crux Philologorum series. This is again based on a summer photo of my mom her brother and their cousin on a woodland walk. I wanted to create a surreal dream like scenario, of a normal family photo up close, but when...

11 Jan Alternative memorioes vol2 Crux PHILOLOGORUM

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Following the initial collage idea and the Crux Philologorum meaning I created few more of the alternative memories images. This photo was sent to me by my uncle, I never saw it before. For me it looked like taken in a different era, or even different...

09 Jan How to show transcendence and meditation?

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After creating the series of self-portraits, I used this technique on dream-like images, I wanted them to evoke the meditative state and the outer body experience that people describe during meditations. In an article by Aviva Berkovich-Ohana we can read that the meditation practice can...

05 Jan Memory of touch

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As I made all the wax hand shells I didn`t want to stop there. I decided to show how I remember certain types of touch, the unwanted, uncalled for touch- with a strong emotions attached to it. Memory and emotion so strong it still causes skin to...

03 Jan Memory of Touch – building from failure

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I came back to this idea after over a month, and a lot of quite traumatic events that happened to my family. I found the repetitive motion of dipping my hand in hot wax is actually soothing in a way. I tried different methods of making...

11 Dec Masks Off- CRUX PHILOLOGORUM

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https://youtu.be/wBtuGkVcBzg According to Jung, the development of a viable social persona is a vital part of adapting to, and preparing for, adult life in the external social world. "A strong ego relates to the outside world through a flexible persona; identifications with a specific persona (doctor,...

07 Dec Time Dilation – crux philologorum

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I started thinking how to show my true self. It was a question that was asked during "Thinking through lens" lecture. As in a way I focused the research on my family and the past - the subject I was working with was myself. I asked myself...

06 Dec †

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Crux philologorum The symbol usually used in the classical filology used to mark a space in the ancient texts that according to the publisher were irreversibly distorted. It is also a mathematical symbol often used in quantum theory. It is used, to denote the operation of...

27 Nov Childhood nostalgia

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I was born during the era of big shifts and political changes in Poland. 1985- the down of Communism. Did it affect the way I see the world around me? Probably. My parents definitely did. With their love for storytelling, fairytales and magic, I have...