Kasia Wozniak’s Ethereal Photography Explores Time and Identity
- Kasia Wozniak showcases her photography at Incubator gallery in London.
- She uses a 19th-century Gandolfi camera with wet-plate collodion techniques.
- The exhibition is titled ‘Stillpoint’, referencing T.S. Eliot’s poem.
- Her art explores themes of time, identity, and memory.
- Wozniak’s subjects include eggs, stones, and her own self-portraits.
Kasia Wozniak’s Photography Transcends Time and Space
Kasia Wozniak is an emerging artist whose captivating traditional photography is now on display at the Incubator gallery in London. Using a vintage 19th-century Gandolfi camera, her work embraces a bygone era with the laborious wet-plate collodion process. The result? Ethereal, deep black and white images that blur the lines between past and present, reminiscent of photographs from a century-and-a-half ago, while feeling oddly contemporary too.
Exploring Ordinary Subjects in Extraordinary Ways
Her current exhibition, aptly titled ‘Stillpoint’ after a T.S. Eliot poem, showcases her unique fixation with the mundane—eggs, stones, and the self. The stones she’s collected from Margate coast are meticulously etched onto oxidised copper plates, prompting the viewer to reflect on displacement. Additionally, her striking imagery juxtaposes delicate eggs with dynamic self-portraits captured in yoga poses, presenting a narrative that’s both personal and universal, about the fragility of existence.
Navigating Liminal Spaces Through Photography
Wozniak explains her fascination with the medium: ‘I wanted something slower, more intentional.’ With the wet-plate collodion process, she cherishes the unpredictability and tactile nature of photography that allows errors to speak volumes. Her journey is not a sentimental hark back to simpler times but rather an inquiry into the liminal spaces of time, identity, and memory, where everything is fluid, yet profoundly significant.
Kasia Wozniak’s ‘Stillpoint’ exhibition is a reflection on time, identity, and the delicate interplay between permanence and fragility, captured through her meticulous traditional photographic methods. As she continues to push the boundaries of the wet-plate collodion technique, her work resonates with both historical and contemporary relevance, inviting viewers to engage with the complexity of existence.
