Posted by Fabio 8 December 2017
Weronika Gesicka, born in 1984 in Włocławek (Poland). Graduated from the graphics department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Academy of Photography in the same city. She received a scholarship from the polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Weronika is doing projects about memory and its mechanisms. She is interested in the scientific and pseudoscientific theories,mnemonics and various disorders concerning it.
Her main field of activity is photography, but she also create objects and artifacts, often in collaboration with craftsmen and sometimes with other artists.
An important part of her art is working with archive materials of various sources. These are both image banks or images found on the Internet and police archives or old press photography.