Biography
Karolina Majewska Freeing is a visual artist based in Warsaw, Poland. She holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York (2017) and an MFA in Painting from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts (2014). Karolina’s recent work explores the fragility and organic qualities of the human body. Her sculptures aim to explore objectification and repression around the ‘politics of the human body’. Her installations feature natural materials such as wax, wood, and clay. Karolina’s work has been exhibited in Poland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Austria, Cyprus, Switzerland and the United States. She has participated in conferences and talks related to her practice during Manifesta 12; Rixc, Art and Science Festival, Open Field Conference, and more.
Karolina led an introduction to casting work shop on how to create reusable plaster molds and single use alginate. “The process of casting my body has given me the perspective to self-observe and accept the mortality of my physical form,” she says. During her residency at Surel’s Place, she created intimate, imperfect self-portraits using casting techniques to build installations that are also metaphors for the body of a woman. Her exhibition, womanhood, was on view from April 5th-7th.
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