Karolina Rolka Zaborska's homepage opens on a dark, misty landscape: a wide field under a grey sky, a lone figure in white standing in the grass, barely there. The atmosphere is cinematic, and not by accident; the image looks like a film still, and film is one of the three forms Zaborska works across alongside collage and archival materials.
Her site's intro puts it plainly: a visual artist whose practice "focuses on identity, memory, and the search for origins through the reinterpretation of images and their documentary traces." She develops that practice across different urban and cultural contexts, moving between cities and treating each as a space of experience and observation. That mobility shapes the work's texture: layers of press photography and found imagery, monochromatic foundations interrupted by colour, architecture and landscape read as something accumulated over time, revisited from a different angle.
The works page makes the range concrete. A 2013 collage triptych, Metropolis, on wooden board, acrylic, and epoxy resin, envisions a dystopian cityscape. A 2018 experimental film, Calculations of Time-Space Rhythm, captures the evolving pulse of Łódź. The most recent work has turned toward the Danish landscape: a 2024 solo show, Lys, or the Northern Light, and a film with animation elements, Mantra of Letting Go (Swan Song). That strand is what the homepage image belongs to: the wide, moody field, the figure in white, a practice that has been moving steadily from urban archive toward open landscape.
See her work at karolinazaborska.com, or follow her on Instagram @rolka_zaborska, and explore Portfoliobox templates built for artists working across collage, film, and photography at once.
