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Marta Stysiak

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aesthetics in the way it urges the viewers
to a process of self-reflection. Artists are
always interested in probing to see what is
beneath the surface: maybe one of the
roles of an artist could be to reveal
unexpected sides of Nature, especially of
our inner Nature... what's your view about
this?

To Mo is my favourite series. It is a
reportage of some kind, the photogarps are
put in sets in an order they appear on a
film reel starting with the surroundings and
moving deeper to the main character and

this character's places, though no sound
and other details are provided only those
seen have to make the story for the viewer.
There always need to be more than it is
seen at the first sight, some kind of story
otherwise there is no need showing that.
Even the landscape that looks flat conveys
meanings. Auge studied non-places and
coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to
anthropological spaces of transience that
do not hold enough significance to be
regarded as "places", an example of which
would be a hotel room, a motorway,

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