Zorka Project is a duo formed in 2000 by two graduates of the Faculty of Photography of University of Fine Arts in Poznan. The duo has created characteristic series of black and white portrait photographs, which have been quickly noticed by the media and featured in such newspapers and magazines as "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Polityka", "Przekroj", or "Playboy". In their portrait cycles, the artists focused on particular social groups: professional ones (for example, nuns, truck drivers, legal guardians), body builders, drag queens, and national minorities. Although Berezecka and Redzisz’s portraits are very simple, with models shown in their natural environment, they reflect the uniqueness of the photographed people. The ‘Mocarze’ (English: ‘Powerful People’) series is an attempt at presenting women who do not conform with the commonly accepted ideal of femininity. Those women’s relationship with their sex is viewed as ‘problematic’ because they work on their bodies in a manner which is culturally ascribed to men, so they lose the delicacy and subtlety associated with women.
ADDITIONAL CHARGE DETAILS:
- In addition to the hammer price, the successful bidder agrees to pay us a buyer's premium on the hammer price of each lot sold. On all lots we charge 18 % of the hammer price.
- To this lot we apply 'artist's resale right' ('droit de suite') fee. Royalties are calculated using a sliding scale of percentages of the hammer price.
gelatin silver print, vintage print on Baryta paper, 23.5 x 23.5 cm (without frame)
Another print of this work belongs to the collection of Joanna and Karzysztof Madelscy 'Uwiklane w plec'.
EXHIBITED:
- Mocarze, Miesiac Fotografii, Cracow, 2004
- Nowi dokumentalisci, CSW Ujazdowski Castel, Warsaw, 2006
Zorka Project is a duo formed in 2000 by two graduates of the Faculty of Photography of University of Fine Arts in Poznan. The duo has created characteristic series of black and white portrait photographs, which have been quickly noticed by the media and featured in such newspapers and magazines as "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Polityka", "Przekroj", or "Playboy". In their portrait cycles, the artists focused on particular social groups: professional ones (for example, nuns, truck drivers, legal guardians), body builders, drag queens, and national minorities. Although Berezecka and Redzisz’s portraits are very simple, with models shown in their natural environment, they reflect the uniqueness of the photographed people. The ‘Mocarze’ (English: ‘Powerful People’) series is an attempt at presenting women who do not conform with the commonly accepted ideal of femininity. Those women’s relationship with their sex is viewed as ‘problematic’ because they work on their bodies in a manner which is culturally ascribed to men, so they lose the delicacy and subtlety associated with women.
ADDITIONAL CHARGE DETAILS:
- In addition to the hammer price, the successful bidder agrees to pay us a buyer's premium on the hammer price of each lot sold. On all lots we charge 18 % of the hammer price.
- To this lot we apply 'artist's resale right' ('droit de suite') fee. Royalties are calculated using a sliding scale of percentages of the hammer price.