Izabella Retkowska is an independent Polish artist who mainly focuses on creative photography, video art and animation. She uses her body as a medium for her multidisciplinary work.

Retkowska’s videos are unsettling and fascinating: the human body is distorted and processed into rapidly changing ornaments – an aesthetic of violence, an evil game.

The sequence of repetitive images of herself creates a hypnotic atmosphere that calls into the flow of emotional introspection. By using black and white colours in combination with challenging sound frequencies, she creates disturbing images full of contrasts. Fast-moving images alternating with quiet moments of pause invite the viewer to self-reflect and include them in their art. Her body appears distorted by the use of artificial elements alongside the representation of her changing positions. As with contemporary dance, a meditative state is achieved through instinctive movements that seem to bring your soul into harmony with the energy flows that pervade the universe.