Weronika Gęsicka
PHOTOSNACK #810
There is this clever, slightly unsettling quality in Weronika Gęsicka’s work — she uses found and archival images, then reshapes them in a way that makes familiar scenes feel strange, playful, and a little haunting.
Until next time,
Tomasz
Love this! Gęsicka uses intentionally warped photographs to express the warping of reality itself in today's world. The artist writes, "Intentionally placing false information in texts that are intended to expand knowledge or verify facts may raise a lot of controversy. On the other hand, we live in times of manipulation, where it is common to publish edited photographs, and soon it will be equally common to generate AI images as illustrations for articles or daily news. Knowledge becomes something volatile and uncertain, and we are left with the daily search for what is true." In this work, "truth" is both hidden and exposed via the distortion.
This is not photography.