Paulina Mirowska
Visual artist, burnt-out climate activist.
Together with Mariusz Filipowicz, she heads the Second Studio of Fundamentals of Photography at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. She took part in the Postnatural Independent Programme 2023 in Madrid. She is a member of the Pracownia Wschodnia Association and the P.H.U. Sitex collective. She is interested in grassroots practices of self-organisation and resistance. She navigates the conceptual realm that exists both within and beyond the binary oppositions foundational to the construction of Western civilization (‘culture versus nature’ and ‘art versus science’). She employs various strategies – visual art, academic research, activist experience – to transcend, deconstruct and rethink these binaries, bringing seemingly heterogeneous fields of knowledge to life. Although her practice is based on abstract ideas, the artist always remains close to material reality, focusing on ways of understanding (and feeling) how parts of the ecosystem live and die and how they affect each other.