March 18, 2023 / 6:00 pm / exhibition until April 15, 2023 / Galeria Centrala ul. Pl. Cyryla Ratajskiego 6A, Poznań
Exhibition RELATIONSHIP OBSESSIONS presents the works of female photographers from Poznan who work in various forms of photography. Summing up a year of joint creative work at the Photo Sabbath, the artists will show four individual stories. Photo Sabbaths are cyclical meetings aimed at women involved in photography that address topics important to the participants. Through the trust built up in the group, a creatively intense atmosphere has been developed.
These are four different looks as the artist creates material imprinting also on herself by obsessively looking at relationships. Among other things, we will see photographs depicting the relationships of the mother
and her adolescent daughter and the entry of both into two separate female worlds (Marta Szyszka).
We will experience a story shown in staged photographs and collages addressing the theme of memories of the mother to neutralize difficult childhood experiences (Kasia Chlebowska).
We will also take a look at the artists in the analog portraits, created during personal meetings in places important to them, when the photographer and the photographed swap roles looking at each other (Justyna Smidowicz-Cegła). Finally, we will enter the world of a group of female artists co-creating a photographic sabbatical. Gestures, hands, faces have become the leading motif of photographs showing bodies in unreal forms (Anka Gregorczyk).
The exhibition will be accompanied by an author meeting and guided tours, details of which will be available on the organizers' website.
Anka Gregorczyk
- documentary photographer, member of FOTSPOT and ZPAF, Polish Women Photographers - an urban planner and spatial planner by training. In her photography she focuses on the reinterpretation of the space of human life and landscapes altered by human activity. Close to her is the trend of new topography and narrative photography.
Initiator and president of FOTSPOT, founder and artistic director of Centrala Gallery. Curator of photographic exhibitions, animator of photographic life; author of numerous texts and interviews with architects, for nearly 10 years photographed for Polish and foreign architectural magazines and portals. Winner of numerous photographic competitions and reviews in Poland and abroad. Scholarship holder of the Marshal of the Wielkopolska Region and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the field of visual arts; winner of a creative scholarship from the City of Poznań. www.annagregorczyk.com
Justyna Śmidowicz-Cegła
- Master of Arts, painter, photographer. She graduated from the University of Arts in Poznan.
Participant of the competition exhibition Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts 2015 in Gdansk. Participant of an artistic residency at CK ZAMEK in Poznań. In 2016, she was nominated to participate in the 12th E. Geppert Competition. Author of publications "Life is kind of just". published by the independent Ostrøv publishing house. To his credit, he has also contributed to the publication of stayathome_zin Published by Zinteca. Since 2012 she has been running a photography blog http://mjuii.tumblr.com. In photography, she is interested in issues related to spaces that are shaped by humans either intentionally or unconsciously. She works intuitively, very often using analog photography in her explorations.
justynacegla.pl
Kasia Chlebowska
- A comprehensively educated humanist, she is a graduate of philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, and Polish philology at UWM in Olsztyn,
Knowledge of Theater at the Academy of Theater in Warsaw.
Graduate of postgraduate photographic studies at CDV in Poznań. Winner of an art scholarship from the Mayor of her hometown of Elblag. Winner of several editions of Wielkopolska Press Photo. She has published in Political Critiqe, the theater monthly "Theater", among others. In the past she worked as a stewardess. Currently, she designs collages and deals with commercial photography, mainly advertising and product photography.
chlebowskaphoto.portfoliobox.net
Marta Szyszka
- molecular biologist, working at the Medical University of Poznan, and photographer (graduate of the Photography Department of Collegium da Vinci and the Tomasz Tomaszewski Academy). Winner of the 2019 Grand Press Photo, first prize in the Documentary Project category. Winner of foreign competitions Documentary Photography Award and Documentary Family Award (2022) and TIFA (2021).
He is most keen on photographing everyday life. Most often she works in the mode of long-term projects. She is interested in man in every space of life and nature. She is a member of Polish Women Photographers.
martaszyszka.com
Organizer: Fotspot & Galeria Centrala, co-financed by: City of Poznań
The exhibition can be visited from Wednesday to Friday from 3pm to 7pm
and on Saturdays from 12 to 4 p.m. as part of the author's guided tours.
April 1 at 17:00 there will be a meeting and discussion about photographic creativity
women, led by Małgorzata Wakuluk of Polish Women Photographers.