As you can see

As you can see

A project for emerging women photographers, strengthening their position in the world of contemporary art through exhibitions organized in collaboration with practicing artists and curators.

As a result of the open call, we invited 4 artists to collaborate: Karolinę Ćwik, Magdalenę Nogę, Natalię Sienkiewicz, Justynę Justyna Streichsbier.

 

The curators: Karolina Gembara (Sputnik Photos), Magdalena Hueckel, Karolina Puchała-Rojek, Agnieszka Rayss (SputnikPhotos).

Karolina Ćwik 
„Don’t look at me”
#pozdrowieniazdomu
The curator: Magda Hueckel


I don’t know where my womanhood ends and motherhood begins. Sometimes I feel fulfilled, complete, and other times I just want to be a woman again. My body is tired, and yet constantly touched and embraced by small arms and delicate hands—it’s penetrated and tested... In motherhood, there is a fine line between total fulfillment and boundless love, and pain and sacrifice.


Exhibition: 2-7.12.2020,
Rotacyjny dom kultury na Jazdowie,
Warszawa

 Dokumentacja wystawy Don’t look at me.

Karolina Ćwik, Don’t Look at Me

 Dokumentacja wystawy Don’t look at me.

Karolina Ćwik, Don’t Look at Me

Magdalena Noga
„Gdy szum”
The curator: Karolina Puchała-Rojek


A story about the feeling of being suspended in a state of not understanding elements of reality, and the often failed—though humorous—attempt to find an instruction manual for problems that resist resolution.

 

I tell the story of a man who devoted his life to storing, preserving, and processing information, as well as “taming” and studying the functions of objects. He constructed analog guidelines and usage schemes for contemporary life. The data he created remained on servers, while the image of his physical presence—captured on film and in digital files—will decompose far slower than his body. His voice, expression, and gestures, preserved in the memory of others, became a substitute for his presence. Yet over time, noise, distortion, and dissonance creep in. We stop visualizing the person as they truly were, and recall only a phantom, a simulacrum, the dust of pixels.

 

The exhibition is a kind of game-manual that poses essential questions and urges us to find a way out.


Exhibition: 24-30.11.2020,
Rotacyjny dom kultury na Jazdowie,
Warszawa

 Dokumentacja wystawy Don’t look at me.
 Dokumentacja wystawy Gdy sztum.

Magdalena Noga, Gdy szum

 Dokumentacja wystawy Gdy sztum.

Magdalena Noga, Gdy szum

Natalia Sienkiewicz
„Ogień”
The curator: Agnieszka Rayss


As a result of a fire, my cousin and his girlfriend lost their apartment, which was also their art studio. From that moment on, for several months, I visited them and observed how they coped with the disaster and its aftermath. During our meetings, I created photographs in which documentary and creative elements intertwine.


Exhibition: 12-13.12.2020,
SALWA – Pracownia Twórcza im. Jana Bohdana Chmielewskiego,
Warszawa

 Dokumentacja wystawy Ogień.
 Dokumentacja wystawy Ogień.

Natalia Sienkiewicz, Ogień

 Dokumentacja wystawy Ogień.

Natalia Sienkiewicz, Ogień

Justyna Streichsbier
„Dziewczyny”
The curator: Karolina Gembara


The protagonists document their everyday lives in a small town. I gave them a camera for the first time during winter photography workshops, and ever since, they’ve been sharing fragments of their lives with me.

Photo authors: Maja Morawiec, Nela Morawiec, Ania Szalast, Amelia Przekora, Justyna Streichsbier 


Exhibition: 22-29.11.2020,
przestrzeni Komuny Warszawa,
Warszawa

 Dokumentacja wystawy Ogień.

Justyna Streichsbier, Dziewczyny

 Dokumentacja wystawy Ogień.

Justyna Streichsbier, Dziewczyny