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Marta Stysiak

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Sometimes I have an issue around which I
elaborate the narative or else the image
I'm interested in drives my narrative. I also
provide narratives in photo serieses. I can't
help that. Because my background is film I
always think what are the relations
between the pictures itself and try to put
them in a kind of story about the place or
people (5 YEARS 23 ROOMS AND A FEW
PEOPLE or BACKSTAGE. A JOURNEY FOR
THE SHOW – where a circus troupe is
juxtaposed with Iranian nomads, or in
seeking a new flock – where a family of

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imigrants is combined with wild nature
found in the city).
You are interested in the relationship
between architecture and sociology and
the ambience you captured in your To Mo
series reminds us the notion of non lieu
elaborated by French anthropologist Marc
Augè: your exploration of Hastings' urban
landscape triggers the viewers' perceptual
parameter in order to reconstruct the flow
of information to whom these images
belong. As the late Franz West did in his
installations, To Mo shows unconventional