„I am still burning, but not like I used to”, is a photographic story of transforming corporeality into sensual abstraction. It is about how intimacy, eroticism, and spirituality can exist beyond literal representation – emerging instead through light, color, and the relationships between images. Most of the works are arranged in diptychs. The juxtaposed images introduce a rhythm that resonates intuitively. The viewer is invited to read the relationships between abstraction and figure, between movement and stillness, between light and its absence. The titular flame plays a dual role – it is both the subject and its metaphor. Captured by Klimza, it does not appear as a destructive force but as a soft, sensual energy that takes on biomorphic shapes and builds meaning. Among these forms also appear figures of Black women – strong and composed, yet open to lightness and play with what remains unspoken. They are presented as icons: Klimza’s lens does not objectify them, but rather places the subject in a space between the physical and the metaphysical. The entire exhibition is aesthetically bound by a chromatic palette and three colors serving as bridges of meaning: red evokes eroticism, yellow opens toward spirituality, and indigo introduces an aura of mystery. Intimacy and sexuality are translated here into the language of abstraction. Literalness disappears – what remains is dense, heated corporeal tension. — Daga Ochendowska