In this series of self-portraits I treat of the covering motive. The invisible exists on the other side of the surface. It’s a fact we can only imagine from the tension within the matter on the surface. Being inside, I imprint the form of my body, and give matter to the image.
Drift makes reference to my personal experience, the same starting point I had developed in Post: the trying experience of a severe car accident. This work evokes the struggle with this painful souvenir. Metaphorically, it’s the struggle to stay alive when the soul is wandering in black water or in a situation of artificial coma. It is about taming a hostile environment, make it bearable or get out of it towards light.
The exploration of b lack and the birth of form to clair-obscur also corresponds to a tradition of painting. It’s obscurity that allows light to sculpt, to make possible the existence of their movement.
Marta Zgierska
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Critique by Carine Bovey, Post tenebras vanitas, “Le Chat Perché”, Genève, Suisse, Octobre 2019 [FR]
Text by Kamila Dworniczak, Afterbeauty, “Arteon”, Poznań, Poland, Juin 2019 [PL]
Essai by Iwona Kurz, Post pictura. Photo-bio-graphy, in: Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty, Monograph, Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland, Février 2019 [PL] [EN] [FR]
Essay by Zofia Krawiec, What is left after beauty?, in: Marta Zgierska, Afterbeauty, Monograph, Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland, Février 2019 [PL] [EN] [FR]
Text by Laura Gowen, artgenève, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland, Janvier 2019 [FR] [EN]
Critique by Joanna Kinowska, Post, czyli co?, “Przekrój”, Warsaw, Poland, March 2018 [PL]
Text by Adam Mazur, Post, curatorial text, The Fort Institute of Photography, Varsovie, Pologne, Février 2018 [PL] [EN]
Text by Sophie Charlotte Hoffmann, Pure gray, the color of resignation and silence. A series by Marta Zgierska, “THIS ORIENT”, Munich, Allemagne, Novembre 2017 [EN]
Interview by Joanna L. Cresswell, Marta Zgierska, “Unseen Magazine”, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2017 [EN]
Text by Darren Campion, Marta Zgierska, “Paper Journal”, Londres, UK, Juillet 2016 [EN]
Text by Diane Dufour, Photographie Sans Titre issue de la série Post de Marta Zgierska, “L’Oeil de la Photographie”, Paris, France, May 2016 [FR] [EN]
Text by Diane Dufour, Post, Artistic Advisor of the Prix HSBC pour la Photography,
Paris, France, February 2016 [FR] [EN]
Text by Enrico Bossan, Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant, Reminders Photography Stronghold Grant reviewer, on Marta Zgierska, the 12th RPS Grantee, Tokyo, Japan, February 2016 [EN]