Class fight/ 2025 looped video uses M.I.A “Paper Planes” but it is a critique from within the imperialist-capitalist system of exploitation, from inside Europe. It signifies that within this system of control are also minorities which always been discriminated against or earlier enslaved because of their class origin or lack of economic capital.
Final Carnival / 2020
7 Photographs
The name carnival comes from Latin: carnem levāre (“remove meat”) or caro, vale (“goodbye meat”).
The work consists of seven self-portraits maintained in the convention of fashion photography. The collection presents animal carnival costumes. The aesthetics of the feminist struggle, street combats, shamanism, and classical elements of Venetian Carnival are visible in costumes. The work draws attention to the exploitation of the Planet’s ecosystem. It is a voice against the cruelty of industrial farming and the destruction of the natural habitats of wild animals.
Referring to the sources of Mediterranean culture, the work criticizes the expansive capitalism of the global north.
Plastic is not fantastic/ 2019
10 Photographic assemblages with the use of reproduction
Set of photographs using reproductions of Tatra paintings. Installations made of plastic and other materials have been arranged in the paintings, emphasizing the changes that have occurred in the natural environment since their creation. A hundred years later, wild, inaccessible nature itself becomes endangered. The work is a reflection on the catastrophic condition of the natural environment.
The reference to images of the Tatra Mountains that already exist in the culture is the means that provokes the reading of the work as a statement of over-exploitation and degradation of the natural environment.
The Peripherals of the Fortress / 2022
Photography, Photo collage, Stop-motion animation
Work dealing with the migration situation on the borders of Europe. Starting with the stories of people drowning in the Mediterranean Sea, through endless makeshift lives awaiting residence permits, to push-backs used both at the Polish and Bulgarian borders. And as well as homemade resistance to the War for the freedom of Ukraine and the branka Russian flight from mobilization. All tend to say about the war-oriented roots of migration.
Have a choice / 2020
Photograph with embroidered inscription
The work from the Federation for Women and Family Planning catalog „Polish abortion XXI century.”
Strange Flowers / 2023
Fiber-based b&w prints from flowers
The project’s starting point is Strange Fruit, the commonly known protest song of Black Americans, sung famously by Billy Holiday and Nina Simone.
The project stands for the woman suffering…
Eviction waves / 2023
The sequence of photographs
With rising sea levels and extreme weather events, the global north must prepare to welcome displaced people. No more beaches or tropical holidays! .. but the climate migration would begin from the shores of the sinking World.
katarzyna kornecka 