Unseen Photo Fair 2017:
VIP preview: Thursday September 21, 14:30 - 18:30 | Official opening: Thursday September 21, 18:30 - 21:00
Friday September 22, 11:00 - 21:00 | Saturday September 23, 11:00 - 20:00 | Sunday September 24, 11:00 - 17:00

„Far from the concept of a photograph being a witness of time, my pictures of the series Territorial Shift play with superpositions. The original image material, snapshots of places I have visited, are being altered by their own components. Pieces of rocks and found objects are used to create unique photograms prints on the landscape they have been found in. Likewise, horizons of seas are being sunk in salty water for a long period of time, letting salt crystalize on the surface of the print as the water evaporates. Images are organized according to their natural typology and aim to compose an open-ended atlas of memories. “
Douglas Mandry

«When Karina Wisniewska steps into a forest glade, she intuitively senses an elemental structure behind things. It is similar to the way that Paul Cézanne saw geological and geometrical patterns in Mont Ventoux, and it lends rhythm to the landscape. (...) Suddenly and unexpectedly, the artist sees the landscape behind the landscape. She draws out her camera and readies it for action. She works with exposure times of several seconds. Click. Something new is born.
The pictures depict the metamorphoses of various forest scenes, a magical symbiosis of nature and the artist’s inner vision. In some of the forest pictures, the sense of space is dominated by a commanding structure of horizontal and vertical forms. In others, there is only an intuition of the forest. Still, we sense the real image – yet it is different, it has depth, embraces the past and the present and hints at the future. Again and again, we are drawn deep into the pictures: to the forest floor with its mosses, ferns and grasses, up into the blue of the sky shimmering through the branches. Karina Wisniewska’s works are complex, vibrant and forever in motion.»
Roy Oppenheim, Publicist

"Far from the concept of a photograph being a witness of time, my pictures of the series Territorial Shift play with superpositions. The original image material, snapshots of places I have visited, are being altered by their own components. Pieces of rocks and found objects are used to create unique photograms prints on the landscape they have been found in. Likewise, horizons of seas are being sunk in salty water for a long period of time, letting salt crystalize on the surface of the print as the water evaporates. Images are organized according to their natural typology and aim to compose an open-ended atlas of memories."
Douglas Mandry

«When Karina Wisniewska steps into a forest glade, she intuitively senses an elemental structure behind things. It is similar to the way that Paul Cézanne saw geological and geometrical patterns in Mont Ventoux, and it lends rhythm to the landscape. (...) Suddenly and unexpectedly, the artist sees the landscape behind the landscape. She draws out her camera and readies it for action. She works with exposure times of several seconds. Click. Something new is born.
The pictures depict the metamorphoses of various forest scenes, a magical symbiosis of nature and the artist’s inner vision. In some of the forest pictures, the sense of space is dominated by a commanding structure of horizontal and vertical forms. In others, there is only an intuition of the forest. Still, we sense the real image – yet it is different, it has depth, embraces the past and the present and hints at the future. Again and again, we are drawn deep into the pictures: to the forest floor with its mosses, ferns and grasses, up into the blue of the sky shimmering through the branches. Karina Wisniewska’s works are complex, vibrant and forever in motion.»
Roy Oppenheim, Publicist