Mila Rowyszyn shapes visual stories that dissolve the boundary between the real and the constructed, with the internet serving as both her inspiration and platform. Her work tackles the confusing surge of online images, where authenticity and fabrication often merge. Utilizing photography, video, and digital collage, she deliberately uses illusion to create visuals that resemble popular blogging aesthetics while subtly questioning their reliability. These uncanny visuals occupy a liminal space—at once seductive and estranged—evoking the atmosphere of a hyper-realistic dream where memory, fiction, and identity dissolve. Her compositions often resemble digital self-portraits or social media relics, yet they resist stable narratives, suggesting personas and experiences that may never have existed. Rowyszyn’s practice examines how performance, self-representation, and visual saturation shape our perception of reality. By repurposing the language of the internet, she transforms fleeting digital gestures into enduring aesthetic inquiries, challenging viewers to reconsider the emotional and psychological impact of the images that surround them. ...
