Zofia Kulik

Artville artist of the day: Zofia Kulik

Title: Light rose I (Smokes)
Year: 2000
Size: 58 x 49 cm. (22.8 x 19.3 in.)
Medium: Photograph

Zofia Kulik was born in Poland in 1947, and has been an active and politically motivated artist for some 40 years. In 1968, when Polish students took to the streets to protest a corrupt Communist government, Kulik joined up with fellow artist Przemyslaw Kwiek to make ground-breaking art that addressed cultural repressions. Under the name KK, the two used film, visual documentaries, mail art, the art of action and intervention, performance, and installation. Their work was often made and exhibited in their apartment, which was also their studio, and where they collected an impressive archive. In the 1970s, they were linked to the Soc Art Movement, which was also known as socialist conceptualism, the second socialist realism or New Red Art.
Since 1989, when Poland underwent changes in regime and KK ceased to collaborate, Kulik has been working alone. She developed her own unique multiple-exposure photographic process, which allows her to achieve complex collage effects within a single photograph. Kulik uses historical and other material from her immense archive, which includes serial architectural, militaristic and nude images, and arranges them consistently and decoratively in her photographs. She has shown her work around the globe, and in 1997 represented Poland in the Venice Biennale.

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