Weronika Gescika works mainly with photography but she also
has work dealing with objects and artifacts as a result of her partnership with
other artists. Gesicka doesn’t actually make her own pictures with a camera she uses (with
granted permission) images from different sources. Some of the sources she uses
for her images are police archives, photo banks, and old press photography. She
takes these images and alters them in Photoshop making the same image but in a
new perspective.
We’ve all had a moment when we couldn’t separate a memory
from a dream or we’re uncertain of the accuracy of our memories. When this
happens our brain might add or take out some parts of a memory, similar to
Gesicka’s process in Photoshop. She tears, and rearranges one image so it still
looks similar to the original but unrealistic. Gesicka’s images combine a
fictional dream world with what looks like a picture from a photo album. Gesicka
has an interest in memories, how memories operate, and various disorders
associated with them.
I appreciate that there’s a science behind her work. Her pieces
from the series Traces are nice to
look at and make me question how accurate my memories are.
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