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Marta Zgierska: Blush

18:00 - 08.02.2019 - Biała Gallery - more

Marta Zgierska: Blush

18:00 - 08.02.2019 - more

Discovering the work of memory is the basic strategy that links the series of Marta Zgierska’s works gatheredat the exhibition “Blush.” In her work the artist starts from an intimate experience and uses actions on her own body as a source of reflection on reality.

In the series “Post”, which is the context for later works, she takes up the subject of trauma and the influence of border experiences on the formation of personality and the action of memory. The key here is the selection of photography as the medium most adhering to the structure of traumatic experience.
The author directs attention to the content remembered by the material in which she works. What is visible in “Numbness” and “Drift” is an imprint, a trace of the process to which the body is subject to. The substances and materials used after hardening and sticking to the facial skin become the carrier of tension generated at the interface of experience and memory.
In the series “Postbeauty” she creates spatial forms, using used facial masks. She is forced to perform a masking ritual on the face and repeats the process so long until it becomes harmful to the skin. The waste of the beautification process unexpectedly becomes an attractive sculptural form in itself.

Marta Zgierska – (born 1987, Lublin), in her artistic practice deals with the problems of trauma, border experiences and body work. The only Polish laureate of the prestigious HSBC Prix la la Photographie Prix, awarded for over 20 years in France. In 2015 Zgierska found herself on the list of 50 most interesting photographers of the young generation in the world prepared by Lens Culture. For the series “Post” the author has been awarded a number of prizes, including Daylight Photo Awards, FotoLeggendo Giovanni Tabo Prize, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award. Nominated for ING Unseen Talent Award and Foam Paul Huf Award. The author of the photo book “Post”, published by the Actes Sud publishing house from Arles, for which she was awarded the Photo Annual PDN. She exhibits her works regularly in museums and galleries in Poland and abroad.

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Marta Zgierska: Blush

08-02-2019 - more