Artist Statement

My artistic practice is rooted in painting; photography forms a closely related extension of my work. In both media, I engage with space and appearance not as subjects to be represented, but as fields of experience and perception.

Nature is a constant source of inspiration for me—fragile, unstable, and in continuous transformation. At the same time, I am drawn to urban and cosmic contexts as sites of intensified perception. My work does not aim to depict what is visible. Rather, it translates inner impressions arising from direct encounters with different spatial conditions.

I am interested in states of transition—moments in which forms dissolve, proximity shifts into distance, and clarity gives way to open perception.
In my photographic work, I transfer painterly modes of thinking and working into the medium of photography. Through layering, reduction, and deliberate blurring, visual spaces emerge that oscillate between material presence and dissolution. Nature, the city, and celestial bodies appear not as fixed motifs, but as transient visual states.

My work does not seek to capture or possess the world. Instead, it opens spaces of contemplation that invite slowing down, focused perception, and an open, contemplative mode of seeing.

Karina Wisniewska