Aneta grzeszykowska biography

  • Aneta Grzeszykowska is a Polish Artist.
  • Born in , Grzeszykowska is an artist of the Raster generation in Poland, associated with one of Poland's most creative institutions.
  • Aneta Grzeszykowska () is a Polish Artist.

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    Aneta Grzeszykowska

    – born , lives and works in Warsaw. Visual artist working mainly in the medium of photography and film, which she uses as tools for the implementation of advanced artistic and ontological practices. The main area of her exploration is the image of a human being mediated by a medium. By manipulating the image, the artist emphasizes the performative dimension of her activities and the feminist way of perceiving images and art. Recurring motifs in Grzeszykowska&#;s works are: absence, invisibility, disappearance, erasing, or impersonating another character.

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    The following text is an excerpt from an interview Questions and Answers conducted between Rainald Schumacher and Aneta Grzeszykowska on the occasion of the &#;Family Skin&#; exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum Museum, Linz, Austria (20/10/ &#; 05/01/).


    Rainald Schumacher: I want to try to advance right into the exciting centre of your artistic work. Obviously, the work is about somet

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    Born in , graduated from the Graphic Arts Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In won Polityka's Passport Award in The Visual Arts category. Lives and works in Warsaw.

     

    The primary medium in which Aneta Grzeszykowska works is photography. However, she treats it instrumentally, as a tool for the realization of advanced, artistic and ontological exercises. The artist fryst vatten interested in the role photography plays in creating and documenting a anställda identity. Therefore, in her film projects or docka sculptures, the human figure acquires the shape and aura of a marionette. One of the main topics of Grzeszykowska's works is her own identity, with which she plays on many levels: bygd erasing her own figure from a family collection of photographs (Album, ), or bygd impersonating Cindy Sherman in her classic cycle Untitled Film Stills (). Some projects by Grzeszykowska – like the cycle of illusionist portraits of non-existent people (Untitled,

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    An intimate diary in the shape of an apparently cold, monochromatic book, Negative Book collects a series of eighty-four black-and-white photographs taken by Grzeszykowska following a very particular procedure, which is both visual and performative.
    The series engages in the deconstruction of traditional photographic settings that stage private situations or scenes specifically for the camera. The artist, who is present in each picture, utilizes two complementary techniques. The first involves the depiction of her own body—totally or partially painted black, with shadows marked in white. This operation creates a reverse effect in the negative film where the body looks bright instead. The second technique involves the use of negative photographs. Such a manipulation undermines the status of positive photography as a medium conveying a truthful image of reality. Yet, the analysis of the medium is not the artist's primary concern. Rather, Negative Book focuses on the perform
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