Karolina BOMBA

BIOGRAPHIE

Karolina Bomba is a French-Polish artist currently living in Grasse, France. Throughout her childhood in Poland, buoyed by political events under the Jaruzelski regime, she finds reprieve by practicing intensively the piano: music and nostalgia will never leave her. In 1986, as a child, traumatized by the Chernobyl disaster and its impact on individuals and on the environment, she viscerally takes possession of her grandfather's Leica with the desire and the childish illusion of being able to "capture" the radioactivity. She photographs Poland in fragments: snow, flakes, rain, clouds ... once the photos have been developed, she gives them a name that she writes in the back with numbers and dates so as not to forget anything and freeze feelings and emotions that passes through her. By capturing the shadows and the lights of a "mutant" country, she manages to define a reality that cannot be detected by the eyes, a domain in which reality and spirituality, the intimate and universality merge to form what she considers her truth and her “raison d'être”, with a sovereign will to understand the world and its absurdity. From this painful experience emerges her predilection for aesthetic work in black and white, fueling her spiritual quest. She moves to France, while a teenager, at the same time Lech Walesa was elected president. She continued her literary studies and followed an intensive theatrical and filmmaker training, directed by Robert Cordier and Lesley Chatterley, at Acting International in Paris. Propelled into the world of fashion as a model she will confront the superficiality of a world with the antithesis of the one she left with heartbreak. Karolina then blossomed in the cinema, dreaming of dreamlike, disturbing, transgressive atmospheres, inspired by filmmakers as Ingmar Bergman, Andreï Tarkovski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maya Deren, Fritz Lang, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Hitchcock, Kieslowski and many others. She then worked for several years for a Canadian production company, directed by Robert Lantos: Alliance Films (working with directors such as David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, etc.). A period of her life rich in travels, meetings, festivals, film sets ... between Toronto and Paris. At the same time, music takes up a crucial place in her life and Karolina performs on the keyboard on stage, with different bands and artists, notably for the French singer Christophe, the singer Nicoletta, the group Frantic with whom she plays during the 1st parts of Duran Duran in Bercy or Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark at the Olympia, etc. She composes themes for series, programs and documentaries creating a bridge, between images and sounds, real and imaginary where she can surrender herself to her own influences, her worlds, her artistic universe. In harmony with her desire for authenticity and always supported by spirituality, Karolina now devotes herself to directing, editing and photography. She produces numerous reports for different causes, and interviews personalities such as Oliver Stone, Patti Smith, Wim Wenders, Jan Kounen, Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Alain Delon, etc. Her musical compositions are regularly used to dress the images she shoots. See more : https://vimeo.com/karolinabomba Behind her camera, she gives free rein to her fascination for the eyes, the passers-by, the skin, the gestures, the details and the words, even the most quietly talkative ... where the "trash" intertwines with the intimate, the rough to the sensual, the infinitely small to the infinitely big. From a humanistic perspective, she chooses to "steal" moments of authenticity, found at the corner of a street while being fascinated by other forms of life. It is therefore attached to everything that connects us, brings us together, propels us too. Elsewhere… In this elsewhere she seeks to explore, where the power of the stars and others interact, where beings are not only human but alive, above all.

FILMOGRAPHIE