Abstract nominee

Meristem focuses on a plant, its anatomy, shape, structure. The plant tissue – merystem has become an object of artistic penetration. The function of the tool, the penetrating needle is taken by the camera lens. In the photo studio an ordinary beetroot plays a role of a celebrity-model. It is transformed into an object that seduces with its texture and colour by means of light, composition and framing. A flower, depending on the time of the dead existence and depiction, takes anthropomorphic forms. Meristem shows the richness of existing phenomena, aetiology of the tissue.

Photographer and professor at the National Film School in Łódź. She has presented numerous photography exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and published essays in magazines. She has participated in international projects and academic conferences with a focus on the place of bodies in culture, and exclusion and abuse in art.