This abstract textile artwork features a whimsical design on a mint green background. The central element is a stylized ladder-like structure, with vibrant red and black accents adding visual interest. The overall composition has a surreal, dreamlike quality, accentuated by the textured surface and the suspended presentation. The artist's intention appears to explore themes of exploration, playfulness, and the subconscious through an unconventional, mixed-media approach. ...
Karolina Dworska works primarily in sculpture and rug-making, creating immersive pieces that explore the space between dream and reality. Her practice investigates liminal territories where figures and forms exist in states of ambiguity, balancing on the threshold of the familiar and the strange. Dworska’s work often depicts uncanny dreamscapes, filled with surreal motifs and enigmatic inhabitants, evoking both discomfort and fascination. She draws on the meditative and transformative qualities of dreaming to examine the fragility of the body and the complexities of inhabiting it, using this lens to reimagine everyday experience. Influenced by cosmic and body horror, mythology, science fiction, and the contradictions of corporeal existence, Dworska’s pieces merge narrative, atmosphere, and materiality in strikingly original ways. Her tapestries, rugs, and sculptural works function as porous membranes, allowing the fantastical to seep into the real world. By blending the abject with the comic, the uncanny with the poetic, she constructs spaces that are at once disquieting and captivating, inviting viewers to encounter the strange, mutable, and richly imaginative landscapes of her practice. ...
