Teresa Gierzyńska

Born in 1947 in Rypin, Poland. Since the 1960s, photograph and its duplication techniques such as thermocopy or photocopy have become the main tool for the artist’s exploration of the representation of women and their role marked by society. Her most known cycle About Her proposes an investigation or introspection within the female identity, the mystical version of feminism, where the photographs are accompanied by adjectives – meaningful titles given to the pictures: Dangerous, Independent, Unapproachable, Mature, Cold, Worried, Thirty Years Old, Useless, Left-handed, Velvety, Caresses, Full of Hope. She lives and works in Warsaw. ...