Karolina Jabłońska Woman on Fire, 2025

Women on Fire marks the rare depiction of a seated figure in Karolina Jabłońska body of work, as the artist remains enduringly dedicated to unconventional crops and distorted proportion.

While the figure exhibits likeness with the artist’s alter-ego, the work’s straightforward style of portraiture and its setting in plain daylight, call attention to the wide range of art historical sources that have influenced Jabłońska’s practice. For example, the posture and enlarged hands of the figure offer parallels with New Objectivity. Likely a housewife, Woman on Fire antagonistically mirrors Otto Dix’s Portrait of the Journalist Slyvia von Harden on a vertical axis.