The Fleeting Taste of a Strawberry or a Wild Strawberry

In her artistic practice, Karolina Żądło engages in a critical dialogue with the traditional image of women. Drawing on the aesthetics of the past, she creates works that bear traces of earlier eras while opening a space for discussion about contemporary tensions related to gender and identity.

The painting The Fleeting Taste of a Strawberry or a Wild Strawberry refers to Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights through the motif of the garden as a space of sensual pleasure, yet one devoid of excess and moral anxiety. The title evokes the symbolism of fruit as fleeting delight, existing only as the trace of an experience. The taste of pleasure does not lead to catastrophe; it simply disappears.