Sports Studies

Sports Studies explores the representation of athletes in the media, capturing their performance in dramatic mid-flight poses. Whether it's air, water, or earth, Sports Studies invites us to focus on the surfaces athletes perform on, an ode to the variety of sports and their infinite range of rules, techniques and visual characteristics.

Karolina’s athletic portraits have a surreal dimension to them: athletes and animals irrupt in the scene, freezing a moment in time while enshrining them to posterity. With an emphasis on tennis, a sport that singles out the player and lends itself to iconic portraits in motion, Karolina builds her own pantheon of heroes.