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Karolina Żyniewicz
Karolina Żyniewicz is a visual artist and researcher, a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. She has also completed her PhD at the University of Warsaw within the international Nature-Culture program at the Faculty of Artes Liberales. Her practice operates at the intersection of bio art and experimental visual work that delves into biological, cultural, and social thresholds. Karolina runs her own research laboratory, where she works with organic matter, exploring natural processes of decay and decomposition. At the center of her inquiry is life – understood as broadly and inclusively as possible – and the relationships between humans and the non-human: nature, technology, corporeality, and culture.
HOW TO CARE
FOR THE MEMORY
OF MATTER?
Archiwum
prywatne artystki
In her projects, Żyniewicz creates research situations where art becomes a tool for understanding the world and oneself, especially in the context of biological existence. Collaborating with scientists, she builds interdisciplinary platforms for knowledge exchange. She is currently conducting artistic research on her own aging and bodily transformation within the framework of contemporary bioculture and medicine.
BLUR THE BOUNDARIES
BETWEEN NATURE
AND CULTURE?
We met to talk about thresholds – both visible and emerging. I asked Karolina about human–non-human relationships. What does it mean to blur the boundaries between nature and culture? What is “storied matter,” and what traces does art leave behind? We also talked about the significance of recording in artistic practice: how to document a process that often resists fixed forms? How to care for the memory of matter and one’s own body in the creative process?
Signs of the time
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