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Polish Artist Gives An Uncomfortable And Surreal Twist To Corny American Photos
Remember those dreams, where everything looks real, yet something is a little bit off? Well, Polish artist Weronika Gęsicka's unsettling images explore these uncanny themes. They portray a distorted reality, but the nightmarish scenes still appear plausible, and this duality looks captivating.
"The project is based on vintage photographs purchased from an image bank," Gęsicka says. "Most of these photos came from American archives from the 1950s and 1960s." They include family scenes, vacation souvenirs, everyday life, suspended between truth and fiction. It's hard to determine if they are natural and spontaneous, or entirely staged.
"We know nothing of the actual ties between the individuals in the photographs; we can only guess at the truthfulness of their gestures and gazes," Gęsicka says. "Are they actors playing happy families, or real persons whose photos were put up for sale by the image bank?" Currently, Gęsicka is a guest artist at the Circulations festival for young European photographers in Paris.
More info: weronickagesicka.com (dyt, theguardian)
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Peter Zaff 8 years ago
I can only think of Monty Python's old song: "sit on my face, and tell me that you love me"
Cameron Zubot 8 years ago
I think this one is a metaphor for the American male giving women the full experience at the expense of his own. As you can see the women are happy enjoying the view while the men have them on their shoulders with their heads up their butts!
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Abigail Ponchillia 8 years ago
I would agree with that if she were the one holding the mask.
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DanceinmyManse 8 years ago
I see this as a child relentlessly trying to repair her family which has been broken
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Linden Robinson 8 years ago
Everybody looks like they're having a good time, except the drummer. He looks left out.
DarknessIsMyOutfit 8 years ago
The women seem too happy about it especially the one on the left
Heather Klein 8 years ago
Omg!!Poor boys!Probably First boob,&It's Old Nasty Mom boobs!!Lmao!Cougars R really going Younger!!!
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DarknessIsMyOutfit 8 years ago
The masks are right out of Pink Floyd's The Wall. one of the freakiest album movie I've ever seen.
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Vítor Augusto 8 years ago
If he is the only different shouldn't he be the wierd one?
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DarknessIsMyOutfit 8 years ago
I didn't know where to look. This one made me cross eyed for a moment.
Álvaro Andrés Palacios Lara 8 years ago
Wait a second, I'm gonna need to headbutt the wall to fully appreciate this one
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alexandra laurita 8 years ago
American burka. Will be mandatory in 2018, if Trump stays in power.
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Md Nashruddin Ibrahim 8 years ago
Love the pic and the color.it is somehow brought me to 70's and early 80's
Linden Robinson 8 years ago
the boys look like little garden trolls trying to get in on the mother-planting action
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Karen Nichols 8 years ago
Thank you - I couldn't work out what was wrong! 😄
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Linden Robinson 8 years ago
what I look like when I wear earphones out of my pocket and can;t be bothered to un-knot them
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Juli-Ann Anderson 8 years ago
They are amazing....I love someone who thinks outside the box! Thank you for sharing!
MS S 8 years ago
its nice art and so , but it seems he depicts women in such an "extraordinary" way
Connor Campbell 8 years ago
He depicts everyone in an "extraordinary" way, it's surrealism, stop trying to find sexism in everything, especially art.
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Juli-Ann Anderson 8 years ago
They are amazing....I love someone who thinks outside the box! Thank you for sharing!
MS S 8 years ago
its nice art and so , but it seems he depicts women in such an "extraordinary" way
Connor Campbell 8 years ago
He depicts everyone in an "extraordinary" way, it's surrealism, stop trying to find sexism in everything, especially art.
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