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Photograph by the famous duo Marina Abramovic & Ulay

Some years ago, I began refusing to eat meat entirely. My objection being based neither on ecological nor ethical grounds, I could only guess at what mechanism of a personal eschatology drove my alimentary choice. – Ksenia Yurkova

The Mikado series is the latest stage of my long-standing artistic development as a photographer, and the next step in my analysis of the creative process. For the past fifteen years, the techniques of digital image processing became crucial for my art. When working on the Mikado project, I experimented with form, focusing solely on the creative process and its medium. – Igor Omulecki

According to a UN study, one third of the world's food goes to waste - the largest part thereof in the industrialized nations of the global north. Equally, 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation. The series "One Third" describes the connection between individual wastage of food and globalized food production.

“The Migrant” is a story about a bird’s remarkable life course; a story about how we deal with animals, the city’s makeability and our attempt to shape an ideal society.

“The Last Road of the Immortal Woman” is where Henrietta Lacks is no longer alive, but not yet immortal. A liminal space separating mortality and immortality, the scientific and the emotional, the political and the personal, the metaphysical and the empirical, exploitation and recognition.

Maria Loboda is an intercultural artist, who builds her vocabulary by drawing from the resources of various cultures. She refers to her own work as an archaeology, for it contains references to history, art, philosophy, literature, science, folklore, alchemy, and various aspects of spirituality and transcendence in the wider sense.

The shapes in the images are not always legible, the photographs are saturated with neon colors. They transmogrify the female body into forms that call to mind the inhabitants of coral reefs in warm tropical seas or inaccessible ocean depths. We are on a higher plane of rendering the body unrecognizable.

A unique cyanotype photogram by the French-American artist Nancy Wilson-Pajic.

In Matrix-Sratrix, Agnieszka Brzeżańska continues to develop her artistic practice by absorbing widely-popular techniques of image making. The show features a new series of digital collages based on pictures circulating on the internet. Ruined cities, stills from popular movies or visualizations of cosmic phenomena merge and entwine to create surprising compositions dealing with topics currently relevant to the artist herself.

One of the first pieces I intended to make for this exhibition was a very large photograph of a field of rapeseed spreading across the horizon. The inspiration came from an old wives’ tale that scolded children for looking at a flowering field of rapeseed in the sun. They say that a person can be blinded by looking at bright yellow rapeseed in the stark glare of the sun. I enjoyed the suggestion of visual violence that this phrase carried with it.

Nicolas Grospierre is one of the most outstanding contemporary photographers, whose pictures from the two series “Modern Forms” and “Modern Spaces” will be displayed for the first time in Poland during an exhibition in the Fort Institute of Photography. Both series have already been published as albums and have been shown abroad, however they are not well known to the Polish audience.

For the last two years, Bownik has been documenting clothes that are part of museum exhibitions. Using the convention of museum photography – a grey background, neutral light – he incorporates his images into the sphere of objective record. However, the pictures do not fit into well-known historical narratives. The gesture of turning the clothes inside-out symbolically invokes the possibility of a different reading.

Larry Sultan grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley, which became a source of inspiration for a number of his projects. His work blends documentary and staged photography to create images of the psychological as well as physical landscape of suburban family life.

Kristall ohne Liebe (literally translated: “Crystal without Love”) is a visual journey into a mystic parallel world. Seen through self-built lenses, prisms and crystals, the photo series captures a psychedelic universe full of contrasts: colourful images, black and white photography, life, death, beauty and ugliness collide.

In her artistic practice, Katarzyna Przezwańska often refers to nature and architecture. She combines both of these fields in an effort to improve the quality of human life, constantly trying to make art useful.

Przemek Branas works in various media and is active in the fields of performance, photography, video and installation. He deals in topics involving politics and socio-cultural issues. He studies the relationship between an entity and society, putting institutional limits to the test, researching social and historical transformations.

“Walden” is a photography series by American photographer S.B. Walker that draws philosophical inspiration from Henry David Thoreau’s book.