Fine Art nominee

Youth is a stage in life that can be perceived differently for many people. It is meaningful because it divides two extreme periods in a lifetime – childhood and adulthood. Bodies are in the best shape, vital energy is limitless and mind is open to get to know the world. It is time of experiments, breaking barriers, learning the opposite sex and new people and as an effect, creating new relations and shaping self-consciousness. Sense of touch plays a significant role as it receives all the body contacts. In her photography’s the artist shows gestures and moments of those body connections and state of delusion interlaced with carefreeness. She stops the time when there is more fun, joy, craziness, love, tenderness and body power. In order to empower those emotions, she combines those pictures with idyllic landscapes. The artist evokes memories to encourage viewers to think and sigh on their youths.

Monika Płusa (born 1992) – deals with analogue and digital photography and nobel techniques in photography: cyanotype and silver emulsion. Her works were shown and sold twice at the Art’Course Gallery in Strasbourg, France, at Jeunes Artistes and Marché des Créateurs “Mamma Mia!” In January and May 2017. Those cyanotypes were also presented at the “Made in Photo # 9” exhibition at the Enter Gallery (PHOTO) tainment at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in 2016, the 20 th biennal of photography and digital image processing – REMIS 2015 and at the exhibition “Photo Border” in Oranżerii in Wilanows in 2015. She participated in the exhibition “Memory area” at the Mazovian Museum in Płock in 2016, as well as “Open Ząbkowska” in the Gallery of Uległa. Selected publications: ASF magazine – International Fine Art Photography nr. 5/2015, the album “European Parliament in lens – Brussels” 2015. In 2011/2012 she studied at the Warsaw School of Photography and the Warsaw Film School. On June 2017 she finished her MFA studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.