water & skin — The Exhibition

water & skin — The Exhibition

WATER & SKIN
A photographic exhibition by Karolina Trawinska

Paris
20–24 March 2026

Water & Skin explores the relationship between fluidity and flesh — between vulnerability and strength.

Through intimate portraits of women immersed in water, the series questions our perception of the body: controlled, observed, compared… and finally liberated.

Water does not judge. It reshapes, reveals, softens.

In this space between immersion and emergence, a new gaze appears.

I have always felt close to water.

As a child, I believed I was a mermaid — spending hours in bathtubs and swimming pools, floating until the world disappeared.
That feeling of weightlessness, of calm, never left me.

Even today, walking along the sea or beside a river brings me back to myself.

Years later, my work as a model introduced me to another relationship with the body.

The body observed.
Controlled.
Compared.
Shaped.

When I moved behind the camera, I wanted to look at women differently — with gentleness, curiosity, and empathy.

To understand light.
Skin.
Emotion.

Water & Skin began almost by accident.

In New Zealand, I was already photographing women under the shower or immersed in pools, fascinated by the way water reshapes the body and reveals its truth.

Later, in Paris, sessions in bathtubs followed naturally — one encounter leading to another.

At first, these images were only for me.
A kind of visual diary.

“These photos are too powerful to stay on your computer.
You need to show them.”

When my friend Gosia said this, something shifted.

And here we are.

Ready to share this intimate journey between fluidity and flesh, vulnerability and strength.

Water does not judge.
It softens.
It distorts.
It reveals.

In the meeting of water and skin, something honest appears — beyond performance, beyond perfection.

Two surfaces touching.
Merging.
Healing one another.

INFO:

L’espace 63, rue Truffaut, 75017 Paris
20-24 march 2026, 10-19h
Vernissage: vendredi 20 march, 19-22h

for more information : contact@karolinatrawinska.com