Contemporary times force us to act in haste and aspiration to make good use of the time given to the full, concentrating on the final effect. The characteristic feature of present time is also the development in technology of recording and processing pictures. Katarzyna Jachimowicz shows us how to create abstract pictures, without going into detail of elaborateness of painting techniques, using only simple digital camera. The artist does not interfere in photographed motive, does not frame the photographs or the colours in computer graphics programmes. The photo enlargements that we can see in the gallery are then possibly true record of a specific moment – the moment of releasing the shutter when a watched picture appears on the screen of the camera. They are abstract pictures painted in 1:60 of a second.
The second part of the exhibition are photograms made of combination of mirrored images of the same photo. Some people might associate the images with psychological tests which is not so far from the truth. The onlooker is given material that is to initiate his or her imagination to work. The brain is looking for symmetry, association and hidden meanings. Strange faces from the pictures are watching us.
The author called her series “My Islands”, and the first thought that comes to our mind is desert islands, happy islands? Maybe it is a friendly place where you can shelter from the world?
We invite you to acquaint with the works by Katarzyna Jachimowicz. They are works that join realism of the objects that have been photographed and the abstraction of the received form. However, let’s not try to classify them as it is unnecessary. The important thing is that after visiting the hospitable “Internet Gallery” (“Galeria z m@łpą”) we should become conscious that what we have already seen are only fragments of the surrounding world, views available for everyone. Weather we are able to notice the beauty in seemingly ordinary and trivial situations or not depends only on our concentration, sensitivity and being open for what the environment offers us.
Maciej Kałwiński
translated by: Sylwia Staniecka