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Katarzyna Lukasik (b. 1990, Bydgoszcz) is a Polish artist based in London, UK. In 2023, she completed an MA in Forensic Architecture and is currently pursuing a PhD in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her thesis, Shocking Periphery, aims to explore a potential history of Poland’s reintegration into the capitalist market following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since 2020, she has co-curated Mascara Film Club, a quarterly film programme held in the UK and internationally. The Club provides a space for screening artists’ works outside institutional frameworks, offering a more convivial setting and fostering a self-organised infrastructure for moving image practitioners. Her work has been exhibited and screened throughout the UK.

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1. Marker of Reversibility (Work in Progress), 2025; 2. – 3. Shocking Periphery (Work in Progress), 2025; 4. – 5. Stones Smell of Myrrh, 2023; 6. – 10. The Utterance of Potential, 2023
Artist statement

Katarzyna Łukasik is interested in the relationship between imperialism and the periphery. Through film, writing and drawing, she examines conflicting notions of the political imaginary as both a tool for erasure and a site of potential. Her artistic practice investigates the economic and cultural subjugation of Eastern Europe, treated as a testing ground for the realisation of Western and Eastern imperial fantasies, tracing the histories of imperial formations, capitalism, and neoliberalism. Through semi-fictional narratives, she seeks to reclaim the political possibilities of the commons and worldly co-citizenship, re-imagining the periphery as a site of resistance and potentiality.

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