| | | |  | | | Weronika Gęsicka, Near Dark,
from the series „Encyclopaedia“, 2023-2024
© Weronika Gęsicka | | | | | | ENCYCLOPAEDIA | | | | Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles | | | | 7 July – 5 October 2025 | | | | Opening: Wednesday 9 July 19:00 Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, Arles | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Weronika Gęsicka, Stone louse,
from the series „Encyclopaedia“, 2023-2024
© Weronika Gęsicka | | | | | | As part of its commitment to supporting young talent, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is showing an exciting international position for the sixth time as part of “Les Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles”: this time the Polish artist Weronika Gęsicka. As in previous years, the exhibition is a collaboration with Fotohaus ParisBerlin and the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation.
With her latest project “Encyclopaedia”, Polish artist Weronika Gęsicka (*1984) visualizes incorrect text entries in encyclopaedias in a humorous and intelligent way.In a humorous and intelligent way, Gęsicka visualizes false text entries in encyclopedias. The bundled collection of facts and knowledge in the form of encyclopedias had its heyday in the 18th century. At that time, countless new reference works appeared, which became an important resource for research and general education. Although considered by many to be reliable sources of knowledge, almost all of them also reveal false entries on closer inspection. They were formulated so precisely and credibly that most readers did not recognize them as “fakes.” These deliberately placed fictitious entries had one main purpose: to prevent copyright infringement, as they could be used to quickly expose copies. This is what Weronika Gęsicka plays with: she illustrates the fake entries both with manipulated stock and archive photos and with AI-generated images. In this way, she creates humorous picture puzzles, whose inconsistencies only become apparent upon closer look. Similar to an encyclopedia, the terms she selected for her project come from all areas of knowledge. The spectrum ranges from fictional personalities and animal species to fashion brands and monsters. Gęsicka presents her images together with the corresponding historical entries. In a playful way, her group of works encourages us to reflect on the reliability of facts and sources of information in the age of fake news and artificial intelligence. | | | | | |  | | | Weronika Gęsicka, Crested Basketfish #2,
from the series „Encyclopaedia“, 2023-2024
© Weronika Gęsicka | | | | | | Weronika Gęsicka (*1984, Włocławek, Poland) graduated from the Graphics Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland in 2009. In 2017, she was selected for the Foam Talent Programme. Parts of her series “Traces” were acquired for the Art Collection Deutsche Börse in 2018.
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is a non-profit organisation based in Frankfurt/ Main, Germany, dedicated to collecting, exhibiting and promoting contemporary photography. The Foundation is responsible for the development and presentation of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, which now comprises over 2,400 photographic works by around 170 artists from 38 nations. The Foundation shows several public exhibitions a year in its exhibition space in Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main. It supports young artists through awards, scholarships or the annual talent programme of the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam. Together with the Photographers' Gallery in London, it awards the renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize every year. The Foundation also works on exhibitions with international museums and institutions, as well as creating platforms for academic dialogue and research on photography. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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