Karolina Jabłońska Jarred Hands (Rączki 2025), 2025

Presenting her distinctive figurative style, with Jarred Hands Karolina Jabłońska explores the politics of everyday life through quotidian subject matter.

A monumentally sized jar in vibrant shades of pink and red is placed on a wooden surface against the clean backdrop of a sage green wall. Jarred among the pickled beets are two hands. The right, half-concealed by the jar’s label, gestures a thumbs up. The left, visible in its entirety, raises the middle finger. These manual gestures, in a literal reading, suggest an allegory for the political endorsement of traditional gender roles juxtaposed with the struggle for female empowerment. While fully aware of the straightforwardness of such allegorizing, the implied meaning exposes the quotidian reproduction of gendered politics.