Before the painting. After Thomas Ruff (2014) Photography by Marta Lesniakowska

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Patrzenie nie jest tak proste, jak się zdaje. Scena przed wielkoformatową fotografią Thomasa Ruffa w Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado w Lizbonie wciągnęła mnie w swoją złożoną grę. To paradygmatyczny przykład „ćwiczeń w patrzeniu” Waltera Benjamina, które wytwarzają dialektyczny obraz i wrażliwość zdolną go dostrzec. Podporządkowana regułom[...]
Patrzenie nie jest tak proste, jak się zdaje. Scena przed wielkoformatową fotografią Thomasa Ruffa w Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado w Lizbonie wciągnęła mnie w swoją złożoną grę. To paradygmatyczny przykład „ćwiczeń w patrzeniu” Waltera Benjamina, które wytwarzają dialektyczny obraz i wrażliwość zdolną go dostrzec. Podporządkowana regułom perspektywy linearnej wymiana spojrzeń na mojej fotografii wiąże trzech graczy tej sytuacji: to Ona - punctum tej sceny, On i Ja, widz stojący poza kadrem, ale będący uczestnikiem tej sceny. Krzyżujące się spojrzenia uwalniają ukrytą dynamikę pozornie statycznej sceny i odsłaniają nieoczywistość tego, czego jesteśmy świadkami. Na kogo kieruje swój obojętny wzrok z widocznym zezem kobieta z fotografii Thomasa Ruffa? Na mężczyznę, czy raczej na nas, widzów, niewidocznych uczestników tej sceny? Jej pozbawiona emocji twarz prowokuje, by poddać w wątpliwość jej prawdziwość/realność: bo może mamy tu do czynienia z fotografią sztucznej (kompozytowej) twarzy, współczesną tronie, czyli ze znanym w kulturze artystycznej od baroku przedstawieniem fikcyjnej twarzy jako studium ekspresji, typu, fizjonomii? Thomas Ruff ze szkoły düsseldorfskiej w swoich „Portretach” pastiszuje konwencję fotografii paszportowej lub policyjnej, ale w istocie robi współczesne tronie używając techniki fotosyntezy (fotografii kompozytowej) wynalezionej przez Francisa Galtona 150 lat temu. Stąd jest nazywany mistrzem reimaginacji obrazów. W mojej fotografii dialoguję z Thomasem Ruffem dokonując kolejnej reimaginacji. A za pośrednictwem czarno-białego medium wpisuję się w aktualny dyskurs nad fotografią neo-modernistyczną i metamodernizmem (ml).

Fotografia kolekcjonerska cz/b. Wydruk cyfrowy papier Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (półbłysk), papier archiwalny, bezkwasowy.
sygn. na licu i na odwrociu, dat. 2014/print 2022 life time print, format 40x40 cm, papier 50x50 cm; egzemplarz nr 2 z limitowanej edycji 5 egzemplarzy, nie podklejona, bez oprawy , BAT - odbitki bon á tirer
Certyfikat autentyczności. Plik archiwany: N32A3518

Fotografia wystawiona:
# XXI Krajowy Salon Fotografii Artystycznej Żary’2016;
“To, że mniej oznacza często więcej, demonstrują też fotografie Marty Leśniakowskiej ukazujące puste sale wystawowe. W przekazie autorki ta pustka staje się względna, gdyż […] wytwarza napięcia zdolne pobudzić wyobrażenia co do treści i akcji” [Adam Sobota, XXVI Krajowy Salon Fotografii Artystycznej Żary 2016, Katalog wystawy, s. nlb.
# Wystaw się w CSW, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Znaki Czasu Toruń’2017 (w gronie laureatów).
# XXI Ogólnopolski Konkurs Fotografii „Portret”, Trzcianka’2016 – nominacja do nagrody, reprodukowane w katalogu wystawy:

Looking is not as simple as it seems. The scene in front of Thomas Ruff's large-format photograph at the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado in Lisbon drew me into its complexity. It is a paradigmatic example of Walter Benjamin's 'exercises in looking' that produce a dialectical image and a sensibility capable of perceiving it. Subordinated to the rules of linear perspective, the exchange of glances in my photograph binds the three players in this situation: it is She - the punctum of the scene, He and I, the spectator standing outside the frame, but who is a participant in the scene. The intersecting gazes unleash the hidden dynamics of a seemingly static scene and reveal the non-obviousness of what we are witnessing. To whom is the woman in Thomas Ruff's photograph directing her indifferent gaze with a visible squint? At the man, or rather at us, the spectators, the unseen participants in this scene? Her emotionless face provokes us to question its veracity/reality: for perhaps we are dealing here with a photograph of an artificial (composite) face, a contemporary tronie, that is, with a representation of a fictional face known in artistic culture since the Baroque as a study of expression, type, physiognomy? In his 'Portraits', Thomas Ruff of the Düsseldorf School pastiches the convention of passport or police photography, but in fact makes contemporary tronie using the technique of photosynthesis (composite photography) invented by Francis Galton 150 years ago. That is why he is called a master of reimagining images. In my photography, I dialogue with Thomas Ruff by making another reimagination. And through the black and white medium, I insert myself into the current discourse on neo-modernist photography and metamodernism (ml).

Collector's photography b /w. Digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta 315g (semi-flash), archival paper, acid-free. signed on the front and on the reverse . dated 2014/print 2022 life time print. size 40x40 cm, paper 50x50 cm. not glued, without frame. Without damages. pprint BAT - bon á tirer .Certificate of Authenticity.
Archived file: N32A3518.CR2

Photography Exhibited:
# XXI National Salon of Artistic Photography Żary'2016; "The fact that less often means more is also demonstrated by Marta Leśniakowska's photographs showing empty exhibition halls. In the author's message, this emptiness becomes relative, as [...] it creates tensions capable of stimulating ideas about content and action" , Adam Sobota, XXVI Krajowy Salon Fotografii Artystycznej Żary 2016, Exhibition Catalogue, p. nlb.
# Exhibit at CCA, Centre for Contemporary Art Signs of Time Toruń'2017 (among the laureates).
# XXI National Competition of Photography "Portrait", Trzcianka'2016 - award nomination, reproduced in the exhibition catalog:

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Marta Lesniakowska is an artist photographer but also, at the same time, historian and art critic, she does research on visual culture. This is what determines his approach to photography: a strategy[...]

Marta Lesniakowska is an artist photographer but also, at the same time, historian and art critic, she does research on visual culture. This is what determines his approach to photography: a strategy of the “look that remembers”, which recalls familiar images from the history of art in order to transmit/intertextualize them. Her dialogue with them consists in asking herself if it is possible to evoke their meanings and what they are or can be today. She is fascinated by light - its role in the construction of the image, the parergon that creates the image. This is why, in street photography, she analyzes the interplay of light and dark, the relationship between sharpness and blur and the interpenetration of images as simultaneous realities. In this way, she brings out the mysterious character of the city, referring to the aesthetics of black cinema and to the master of 20th century street photography, Saul Leiter.(ml)

When she takes photographs, nothing is more or less important to her; his gaze is often governed by the principles of minimalist poets: an economy of detail, the discovery of subtexts and insinuations hidden in invisible objects and bits of everyday reality.

Marta Lesniakowska lives and works in Poland. His works are part of public collections (National Museum in Wroclaw, Museum of Bydgoszcz) and private collections (Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, United States).

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