Poland – Warsaw

Scientific theories and pseudo-scientists, mnemonic devices or various disorders that concern her, everything here becomes a field of experimentation for the Polish photographer.

This former graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Photography in Warsaw explores memory and its mechanisms. In her photographic work, notably her series “Traces,” Weronika Gęsicka draws on image banks and archival documents to obtain, create and gather images that reflect the ways of life of the past in order to manipulate these idealized scenes by digitally distorting them.

Her work, between truth and fiction, questions our perception and this “contemporary enthusiasm” to bring together collective elements that define our identity. With her series “Collection,” which is of particular interest to us here, she takes a different approach.

The 39-year-old artist designs objects and artifacts that she captures behind the lens. This experimental approach, in collaboration with artisans and artists, is inspired by her life trajectory, while using her own body as a model. Weronika Gęsicka tries to analyze “how everyday things can be a sign of the time in which they are created” and whether “this reality will be interpreted by anthropologists of culture and will have an influence in the distant future.”