Karolina Gwóźdź, Annunciation

oil on canvas, 115,00 x 160,00 cm

Born in 1996 in Pszczyna. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice at the Faculty of Arts, majoring in graphic design. In her work she focuses on relationships and interpersonal relations in the context of nature, spirituality, ecology and the impact of culture on the individual. He adapts the media in which he works to the issues he addresses. He expresses himself through oil painting, printmaking, photography and video. She devoted two pandemic years (2020-2022) to examining the negative impact of patriarchal culture on both sexes, and searching for places in mass media that influence the formation of desirable cultural gender roles and sustain the polarization of society on peri-feminist themes. The result was the graduation project The Red Pill, consisting of four videos and a series of paintings. She has been a tattoo artist since 2021 and teaches drawing and painting classes and organizes workshops in printmaking and watercolor.