2015/2016
pigment print, Museo Silver Rag 300 g, cardboard, 40 × 32 cm,
signed, dated, described and artist’s label on the reverse
edition: 1/5 + 1 a.p.

Gęsicka made her Traces series using stock photos. She treats photographs as traces of human existence, situations, moments. For her, family scenes, holiday memories, and everyday life in the photographs are suspended somewhere between truth and fiction. Modified in a variety of ways, the images acquire new meanings, while the memories of people and situations are subject to transformations and are gradually erased.
This photograph was one of the works promoting the ShowOFF programme of the Cracow Photomonth in 2016.
Awards: ShowOFF, Cracow Photomonth (2016); finalist Prix Levallois, France (2016).
Publications: LensCulture, Hunger, i-D, CITYZINE Magazine, Beaux Arts Magazine, VICE 15th Annual Photo Issue, Ze.tt, Wysokie Obcasy - including the cover.
Exhibition: Traces, Cracow Photomonth (2016).