Maja Kaszkur
Main curator of FFWRS
Anna Orłowska is an artist and photographer. She studied photography at the National Film, Television and Theatr School in Łódź and at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. In 2013, she was awarded the Photo Global scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Orłowska creates photographic objects while testing the limits of the medium. She mainly photographs architecture and interiors, revealing the invisible layers of history and its ideological determinants, usually absent from the official narrative. She plays with various conventions, from documentation to creation, uncovering hidden myths, legends and fantasies about the past and creating new constellations of meanings. Her objects, based on photographic images, establish a dialogue with this imperfect medium. Orłowska treats them as a research instrument for exploring inherently fragmentary issues: the notion of knowledge and the work of memory. She lives and works in Warsaw.
Fot. Łukasz Sokół
Witek Orski is a visual artist and photographer. He creates photographs, photographic installations and objects. His interests focus on the relationship between images, the social functions of photography and its status in visual culture. The exhibition medium itself is an important tool for him, as he arranges cycles of artwork cycles into types of visual essays. He has been featured in exhibitions held in Poland and abroad.
Orski graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in philosophy, and received his doctorate from the University of the Arts in Poznań. He currently teaches at the Film School in Łódź. He lives and works in Warsaw.
Fot. Łukasz Sokół
Visvaldas Morkevičius is a Lithuanian visual artist. His photographic projects have been featured in solo and group exhibitions across Europe and in museum and private collections such as the MO Museum, Lewben Art Foundation, SEB Bank, and the Tesonet Cyber City art collection. He gained prominence with the publication of his first photography book “Public Secrets” in 2015, and in 2021 he was awarded the the Riga Photography Biennial – NEXT prize and the ISSP Gallery Award “Seeking the Latest in Photography!”
According to the artist himself, he uses photography anthropologically, employing a variety of photographic aesthetics so that he can manipulate perception, the awareness of time, and a sense of experience mixed with the context of the moment. Morkevičius sees the medium of photography as one of the most accurate for recreating reality and, at the same time, highly malleable when used in metaphorical forms. His projects are self-analytical and intimate, yet not devoid of clearly universalistic qualities.
Fot. Łukasz Sokół
W ramach współpracy nadbałtyckiej gośćmi 9. edycji festiwalu będą artyści z Litwy: Gintaras Česonis, Dovile Dagiene, Vilma Samulionyte i Gytis Skudžinskas. Kuratorem wystawy ich prac pt. „Soul Studies. Nowa litewska fotografia” jest Adam Mazur. Wystawa będzie się składać z prac współczesnych fotografów litewskich młodego pokolenia oraz prezentacji najpiękniejszych książek fotograficznych ostatniej dekady wydanych przez NoRoutine Books, Kaunas Photo Gallery i Prospektas Gallery.
Adam Mazur
Curator
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