Landscape nominee

This photographic series captures the shifting landscapes of the Słowiński National Park’s moving dunes — a space where light, sand, and air form a dialogue of quiet transformation. Through five minimalist compositions, the project explores the tension between motion and stillness, presence and absence. Each frame reveals a landscape that reshapes itself, erasing traces as quickly as it creates them.

The dunes, sculpted by the relentless Baltic wind, appear both timeless and fleeting — a living desert by the sea. Stripped of human presence, the images invite the viewer to contemplate the essence of emptiness, where subtle variations in texture and light become the narrative. The absence of scale turns the familiar into the abstract, suggesting infinity within simplicity.

“Between Wind and Silence” is not merely a documentation of place but a meditation on transience and perception. It seeks to translate the rhythm of natural forces into visual form, allowing space to speak for itself. What remains is a portrait of impermanence — serene, luminous, and always in motion.

Katarzyna Oliwia Serkowska
Visual artist and photographer. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She earned her master's degree with distinction in 2021 in the Studio of Transdisciplinary Actions at the Faculty of Sculpture and Intermedia. Winner of the Best Diploma Works of Polish Art Academies competition (2021/2022). She is a member of the UL Gallery and, since 2024, has been working at the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk.
Her works engage in a critical analysis of the humans/nature intersections in the context of the care for the environment, and on how technology impacts individual body and identity. Serkowska uses her media in a contemplative way, exploring the boundaries of perception and memory. She reflects on human transience and expresses emotions inspired by confrontation with death. She creates uniquely meditative artistic photography, installations, photo-objects in which organic forms collide with code and structure creating post-artistic spaces. She also works with new media, bio art and generative art.