Projects / Karolina Urbaniak

Death Poems / 2023

Series of still-life photographs produced for the publication of Death Poems by Jacques Prevel

The Projection of the True Body / 2022

Short film inspired by the final work of seminal theorist and artist Antonin Artaud

The Songs of Maldoror / 2022

Series of photographs of mise-en-scène created for the publication of The Songs of Maldoror by Le Comte de Lautréamont

A Sinister Assassin / 2022

Photographs + videos created for the publication of A Sinister Assassin by Antonin Artaud

SACRA / 2022

Collage illustrations for the publication SACRA by Sean M. Huber

The Changeling / 2021

Mixed media fairytale created for the publication of Infinity Land Press Anthology

The Torture of the 100 Pieces / 2012–2020

Series of macro-photographs / 'woundscapes', created in collaboration with artist Martin Bladh

Cannibal in the Mirror / 2020

Illustrations for Evergreen Review Literary Magazine

Tears of a Komsomol Girl / 2020

Photographs + collages for the publication of Tears of a Komsomol Girl by Audrey Szasz

Work in progress

Photographic inquiry into the aesthetics of modern ruins

SUCCUBATIONS & INCUBATIONS / 2020

Illustrations created for the publication of Succubations & Incubations by Antonin Artaud

Music cover artworks / 2012 - 2021

A selection of cover artworks created for the Swedish sound artist JARL.

Miscellaneous

Rejected, unfinished and unwanted photographs and artworks

THE POISONED WELL / 2020

Sound design for the Time Ends – A Tribute to J.G. Ballard's Tetralogy Of Transformation

Sandmann / 2019

Multimedia play created for The Uncanny: A Centenary an exhibition at the Freud Museum London

L-W-S / 2019

Transcript + visual record from a trip to Shepperton with Fay Ballard

DEATH MORT TOD - A European Book of the Dead / 2018

Mixed media illustrations for the publication of DEATH MORT TOD - A European Book of the Dead

Artaud 1937 Apocalypse / 2018

Photographs + videos created for the publication of Artaud 1937 Apocalypse by Antonin Artaud

On The New Revelations of Being / 2018

Multimedia work based on Antonin Artaud’s apocalyptic manifesto from 1937

Darkleakes - The Ripper Genome / 2017

A soundtrack for a spoken-word album included in the Collector's Edition of Darkleakes - The Ripper Genome

DIY Lobotomy / 2016

A series of staged photographs depicting the ordeal of the procedure of Lobotomy

Death Scene #1 / 2016

Photographic reconstruction of childhood memories

The Void Ratio / 2015

Series of photographs created for the publication The Void Ratio by Shane Levene

No Breath of Sound / 2015

The third part of a trilogy which explores the artists' personal obsession with beauty and death.

GASPER / 2015

A cinematic take on disturbing exploration of the dissociative mind

Altered Balance / 2014-2019

Project devoted to John Balance, the founding member of Coil

To Putrefaction / 2013

The second part of a trilogy which explores the artists' personal obsession with beauty and death.

The Island of Death / 2012

Series of video backdrops created for Martin Bladh's stage performance, The Island of Death

DES - selected entries / 2011–2022

Photographic entries made in collaboration with the artist Martin Bladh for DES: The Theatre of Death

Landscape

Various