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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 (dyttheguardian)

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Kjorn
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

how the guys breath with their head up their butt?

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Amber
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm not unsettled... I just want to buy a swimsuit like those.

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Peter Zaff
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can only think of Monty Python's old song: "sit on my face, and tell me that you love me"

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Cameron Zubot
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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Amanda Panda
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Are the girls on the right twins? Because I'm pretty sure the two guys on the right have totally different make up in their...um....genes

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Joe Sauer
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That looks like Norman Jean (Marylin Monroe) in the middle. Minus the guy coming out of her butt

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This picture is clearly not gender neutral. I guess it would be called a harassment, rape or male privilege if men and women would be swapped.

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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've done this to my son, he was standing too close when I was putting my waist length hair in a ponytail, heh.

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