Jolanta Rycerska - On the search for photography in oneself

March 9, 2023 / 6 pm / Center for Non-Governmental Organizations in Radom, 15 Market Street

The "Gloria Lucis" Foundation for Visual Arts and the FORMATS Collective invite you to an author's meeting with Jolanta Rycerska, Doctor of Art, graduate of the Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy, the European Academy of Photography and the ZPAF Photography Studio. She serves as president of the ZPAF Main Board, curator of exhibitions and lecturer.

We're going to talk about "The Search for Photography in Yourself."

Jolanta Rycerska - trained in the philosophy of art and photography, professionally a curator and lecturer. For twenty years she has been working with photography as a tool for building artistic expression. Since graduating from the ZPAF Photography Studio in 2004, she has been actively working creatively - she has been the author of thirty-five solo exhibitions, more than forty group exhibitions, a juror of many competitions, a member of the program council of the Kordegarda gallery, a two-time scholarship holder of the MKIDN and a winner of the MKIDN special award in the field of visual arts. Since 2011 she has served as president of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers, and since 2009 she has also been president of the Warsaw District of the ZPAF. The author of, among others, cycles: Poetics of Duration, Mosaics, Willows, Silentium, Illuminations, Neighbors, Nobody's Fairy Tales.

"From photography I don't expect to stop the moment. I accept that when I look at photographs I will no longer encounter that space-time. I only follow the clipped traces of a past presence. The past will not be restored or stopped, it will remain only (until) an echo reaching me from afar of the escaping time I want to celebrate. Photography deceptively seems to adhere to the past world, but yet in contact with it we feel this painful paradox - the physical proximity of the photograph and the irreversible remoteness of the photographed object. We no longer possess what is hidden beneath the image. Now it's just light trapped in the print by the shutter speed. And yet somehow we believe in this recorded world, we believe in the sense of recording it, we desire photographic evidence of its (our) existence.