Karolina Jabłońska Eating of a self-portrait, 2024

This large-scale work by Karolina Jabłońska presents a figure biting a piece of paper depicting a sketch of the artist outlined in dark sinewy lines. The drawing presents a generalized self-portrait that appears frequently throughout her practice, with identifiable characteristics including a captivating facial expression, large brown eyes, and prominent bushy eyebrows. Yet, whilst her main protagonist appears here again, this piece belongs to a series of works centered on the theme of internal conflict. This belongs to a wider conceptual framework exploring the desire to theorize oneself, often defined as auto-fiction and auto-theory that lies at the core of the artist’s practice.