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Karolina Albricht (b. 1983, Krakow, Poland) is a London-based artist working primarily in painting and drawing. She sees painting as an opening – an access point to a world that can be felt and intuited. Albricht seeks to generate active spatial environments that engage both intellectual and sensory faculties – what she understands as whole-body-intelligence.
Her paintings probe the reciprocity of colour, shape, line and surface: their responsiveness to one another and to the painting’s edges. She is interested in the interrelation of the body’s movement in space and time, and how these relationships can be translated to the pictorial plane. These concerns are also reflected in the varied scale of her paintings, which range from hand-sized panels to canvases larger than the frame of her body.
Albricht is driven by curiosity and the desire to see – and, most importantly, to feel what is seen. A sense of potentiality is central to her practice, sustained by a continual process of posing and rephrasing questions about what is possible. She understands painting as a dislocation – an interference of matter that generates vibration – its own pulse.
