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.
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I can only think of Monty Python's old song: "sit on my face, and tell me that you love me"
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!
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
The masks are right out of Pink Floyd's The Wall. one of the freakiest album movie I've ever seen.
They are amazing....I love someone who thinks outside the box! Thank you for sharing!
its nice art and so , but it seems he depicts women in such an "extraordinary" way
He depicts everyone in an "extraordinary" way, it's surrealism, stop trying to find sexism in everything, especially art.
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its nice art and so , but it seems he depicts women in such an "extraordinary" way
He depicts everyone in an "extraordinary" way, it's surrealism, stop trying to find sexism in everything, especially art.
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