Kasia Kowalska

Objet petit a, 2021

What brought me to create this series was a personal desire to respond to the hypersexualisation of the female form in Western culture. A series of self-portraits, these images centre around themes of the female body and the feminist theory. By abstracting the figure and placing it in a void, I want to disrupt the male gaze and break with conventions of how the female form has been historically depicted

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Kasia Kowalska

Mama, 2021

Photography allows me to probe and define my relationship with my mother not only as my parent but also as my muse. As long as I can remember, I have documented her life through photography and cast her as the subject of my portraits. Where does the impulse to do it come from? The relationship with a mother can be one of the most complex ones we experience. My images are an attempt to give shape to this complexity.

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