FaB Festival 24 May - 8 June 2024

#FaB18 Curators blog

Katarzyna Wagner (soft rebel)

Katarzyna Wagner

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Platform

35mm B&W film print

2018

2 photographs, each 1399.96 x 933.45 mm 

 

www.katarzynawagner.com

 

I am a Polish artist, currently working in Southampton. I work predominantly with painting and photography, responding to cultural atrophy by documenting architectural structures in transitional periods. Windows in these structures serve as a vehicle for these ideas, as they can frame a composition evocative of both an abstract painting and reflections of the world. I use formal strategies in my practice - from maintaining the natural colour of the canvas in painting, to using b&w film - to mark the temporal ambivalence of the scene. My works aim to suggest possibilities of a cultural frontier between an edge of civilisation and beginning of another.