KAROLINA JABŁOŃSKA – JARRED KITCHEN
2025-10-27On view are sixteen newly commissioned oil paintings executed on canvas and wood. The presentation is accompanied by an essay by the curator and researcher Mėta Valiušaitytė; the following is an excerpt from her comprehensive text, available at the gallery and online. In Jarred Kitchen, Karolina Jabłońska stages encounters with food preparation: cutting, storing, displaying.
Her new series explores the paradoxes of preservation, turning the kitchen into a stage where humor, memory, and the female body and labor converge. The large canvases submerge the viewer: monumental female heads, painted on two-meter supports, draw one into a world of giantesses. When their eyes are not closed, their gazes are watchful, yet distant, as if estranged from their domestic surroundings. The smaller works lead viewers into the intimacy of a pantry. Glass jars are filled with pickled cucumbers, beetroots, and red berries––but amid them float fragments of human bodies.
Opposite – Woman on Fire, 2025
Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025
Esther Schipper
16 place Vendôme
75001 Paris
