In the month of May from 1st till 25th photo gallery “Objektief” presents the works of Polish artist Katarzyna Lata-Wrona. Katarzyna studied (1994–1999) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, at Graphic Arts Department in Katowice, from which she graduated in photography and graphic design. Since then she was an author of over a dozen individual exhibitions in photography
and participated in numerous group exhibitions and happenings. Katarzyna is a member
of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers (ZPAF) from 2000. Since 2005 she holds the function of president of the Silesian Division of ZPAF.

In Fotogalerie “Objektief” Katarzyna presents two photographic series, the first in black/white entitled “Frames” (“Kadry”) and the second one in colours, which is her most famous, entitled “Cages” (“Klatki”). This last is a personal interpretation to the collection of “male” stories from her husband Bartosz Wrona book entitled “Steppenrabbit” (Krolik stepowy”).

Zofia Szota wrote about this:
The “feminine” version presented here is not an illustration of the texts, but an attempt to engage in a dialogue, presenting the same reality from another, feminine perspective. The text became a mere pretext to tell about a woman’s loneliness, fear, non-fulfillment, need for love and sex, but also about the sense of separateness of one’s own body. We have here very painterly images of female figures shrouded in lucid haze. The game of colors and light creates the effect of a mysterious aura, an understatement. In these photos all the reality seems to be an intricately woven net of human emotions and intentions, of appearances and the truth, fear and hope, giving and taking. We realize that “The body lives only in osmosis, in contact, in closeness and perfect harmony of senses with other bodies, but also in liberating and painful lack of it and separation. The body consists in the attachment to being touched, scratched, irritated by somebody else’s body. Every person is surrounded by an aura, a radiating atmosphere which the person emits and creates. Between the bodies, which consist a part of the flow of life, a touching and full of affection game appears.”

In black/white series “Frames” the resignation from color allows to concentrate on the forms of symbolically treated figures. Further simplification of form leads to tight frames, encompassing only fragments of the body. In these works, the author structures the composition of
the photographs based on the so-called punctum, which, according to Roland Barthes’ theory, occupies the whole photograph, while, paradoxically, remaining a detail. This creates
a somewhat surreal atmosphere and the impression of certain abstractness in combination with the real subject which a human is.

To meet the artist and to participate in the official opening of this exhibition you are cordially invited for Sunday, May 12th at 16:00 hours, to the Fotogalerie Objektief.