Katarzyna Zwolak wins Eye Line commendation, with drawings that flick between dimensions with a delicate play of light and shadow
Commended, Practitioner
Katarzyna Zwolak
Professor, Szczecin Academy of Art, Poland
Zwolak’s studies of Tadao Ando’s Church of Light in Ibaraki, Japan, and Therme Vals by Peter Zumthor are curios, less about the hand-drawn studies of the two canonical buildings than the manner in which both are framed. Cut, folded card creates a three-dimensional relief through which light is projected, and the whole mini-sculpture photographed.
Ramstad admired the effect despite the simplicity. ‘Ando’s work was also about the play of thin planes, which is totally suited to the manner of the framing; there’s a material roughness that seems appropriate too,’ he said. Wigglesworth felt it ‘captures the cave-like qualities of the Zumthor space. What’s clever about it is that she is flicking between two and three dimensions, augmenting both.’
In its delicate play of light and shadow, the method leaves the viewer questioning what is real and what is not, what is drawing and what is sculpture. ‘It’s certainly a very unusual and effective way to frame an image,’ thought Chou.
Eye Line award winning drawings from this and previous years