Honorable Mention / 2016 / Portraiture / Other_P

Disillusioned

  • Photographer
    Beata Podwysocka, Poland

She is a self-taught artist and her interest in photography arose a few years ago from a strong desire for self-expression. However, she has been always receptive to modern arts especially abstract and minimalist forms, which is very often reflected in her works. The artist explores the surrounding world in search of scraps and patches of ordinary objects which she then transforms into self-existing entities. She uses her camera in the way a tailor handles scissors cutting out the pieces of fabrics-like surfaces, textures, patterns and colours. While taking photographs the artist also reaches for presenting vague and transient images such as shadows or reflections. She is fascinated with the fact that one is able to freeze the world that is absolutely intangible, but at the same time, it is inevitably and irreversibly non-existent without the actual physicality of things. Thanks to such a shift in perception she is able to enter countless parallel worlds which are close at hand every day, however, we rarely realize that we live in their immediate vicinity.