Bio / Statement
Bio
(b. 1992, Poland)
Wieczorek is a Polish-origin artist currently living and working in France. Her practice evolves between film and photography while moving between constructed documentary and documented fiction.
She graduated from the National Film School in Lodz, Poland (MFA with Distinction 2017-2020), where she studied photography and cinematography, and from the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz (MFA with Distinction 2011-2016), where she studied intaglio printing techniques and photography.
From 2020 she was an artist in residence at Le Fresnoy – Studio national (FR), which she graduated in 2022.
Her artistic and filmic work has been showcased internationally, in art institutions and film festivals (Art Basel Miami, US – The Finnish Museum of Photography, FI – Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, JP- Gérardmer Film Festival, FR – NEW HORIZONS Int Film Festival, PL – among others), and awarded (Grand Prix: WENCH Int Film Festival – Grand Prix: CourtMétrange Film Festival 2022 – Le Prix Analix Forever 2021, Geneva, CHE).
She currently works on her first feature film with Futur Antérieur Productions (Paris, FR)
She is the Government of Ireland / Irish Research Council Award (2023) recipient. Consequently, she now develops her artistic-filmic practice in the context of PhD Research at Dublin City University, where she develops her work pertaining to representation of women’s reproductive rights in cinema and visual arts, a project initiated within the Peter Hansell Scholarship (Medical Group of the Royal Photographic Society) that she received in 2021.
Statement
An important element of my work is the intersection of violence, control vis-à-vis caress and eroticism.
I observe this ambivalent relationship as characteristic for the Western view on the body, which makes it an object of fantasies, erotic role-playing and medical procedures that blend the eroticized fascination with the body, with violence.
To create spaces for discussion on taboos around gender, sexuality and reproduction, I use objects: medical artefacts, fetishes, elements of BDSM practices. I transform them into animated characters or objects mediating stories, which allow to enter the hidden domain of erotic fantasies and practices; obstetrical practices and medical laboratories; getting under the skin of bio-political reality.
Animation, photography and film become the means of penetrating these zones, as well as the surfaces where touch and sight are played out.The figure of an objectified body, or of a body changed into an object, allows me to draw out how trans, queer or pregnant bodies become a hybrid space: the host of the most intimate, and, at the same time, the subject of public and political discourse.
Education
10.2023 – 10.2027
Government of Ireland – Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship
Dublin City University, Dublin, IRE
Doctorate research
10.2020 – 06.2022
Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains, FR
Artiste diplômée
11.2017 – 07.2020
The National Film School in Lodz, PL
Direction of Photography and TV Production Department
Master Degree with Distinction
11.2011 – 09.2016
The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, PL
Graphics and Painting Department
Master Degree with Distinction
Upcoming
2024 – Serlachius Museum – Mänttä, FI
Awards & Grants
2024
- Tatino Films: Pop-Up Residency Award
2023
- ANIMARKT Animated Film Forum – official selection, Radiator IP Award
- Government of Ireland – Irish Research Council Postgraduate Award
- WENCH International Film Festival (IND) – Grand Prix
2022
- Court Métrange International Short Film Festival (FR) – Grand Prix
- FEST : New Directors International film festival (PRT) – Silver Lynx nomination
- THIS IS SHORT International Short Film Network – New Points of View Award Nomination
2021
- Le Prix Analix Forever — Award winner – prize for the best film work
- Peter Hansell Scholarhip Fund – Royal Photographic Society — Grant recipient
- Renctontres d’Arles – Changing Times: Art facing a new world – conference & publication by The Eyes – Arles
- HELLERAU Photography Award — Award winner (Hellerau Residency Award)
- Les Boutographies – Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier – Official selection, Motpellier
- PARALLEL Atlas by The Eyes – Selected artist
2020
- K*MoPA – Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan) — Laureate
- HELLERAU Photography Award — Award winner (Hellerau Residency Award)
- Polish Culture Around the World, Adam Mickiewicz Institute — Grant holder
2019
- K*MoPA – Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan) — Laureate
- Les Boutographies rencontres photographiques — Laureate (official selection)
- Kaunas Photo Festival — Award nominee
- TIFF Photography Festival — Special mention
- Young Lynxes Prize, Lynx Contemporary Magazine — Award winner
- Polish Culture Around the World, Adam Mickiewicz Institute — Grant holder
- Blame the Algorithm, DER GREIF open selection — Laureate / Selected artist
- GETXOPHOTO Festival of Photography — Finalist
- SURVIVAL Art Review — Laureate (official selection)
- OBSCURA Festival of Photography — Laureate (official selection)
- Young Artist Award, stipend by the Province Marshal — Grant holder
- Function/Anomy, Intermission open selection: — Selected Artist
2018
- Warsaw Photo Days International Festival — Grand Prix
- DER GREIF: Guest Room by Monica Allende open selection — Selected Artist
- GESTE Paris: Binary/Non-Binary — Laureate / Selected Artist
- PARALLEL European Photo-Based Platform: New Artist — Laureate
- Young Artist Award, stipend by the Province Marshal — Grant holder
Residences
2024
2023
2020-22
2021
2019-2020
- Tatino Films: Pop-Up Residency Award
- Leeuwenpoort – Artist Residency, Zeeland, NL
- AMI Artist Residency: ANALIX FOREVER, Geneva, CHE
- Le Fresnoy – studio national des arts contemporains, FR
- HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, DE
- PARALLEL – European Photo-Based Platform, (International)
Film Residencies / Programmes:
2024
2023
- When East Meets West
- European Short Pitch
- ANIMARKT Animated Film Forum
Solo exhibitions
2023
- Procur.arte / PARALLEL Photo-Based Platform Space:
Artefacts, Lisbon, PRT
Film festivals
2024
2023
2022
- Landshut IFF Landshut, DE – Official selection, nomination for Deadline Award
- Final Girls IFF Berlin, DE – Official selection
- Lund International Fantastic Film Festival, Lund, SE – Official selectionSplat! – International Fantastic Film Festival, Warsaw – Wroclaw, PL- Official selection
- Mutoscope IFF, Lyon FR – Official selection
- Gérardmer Festival International du Film Fantastique – Gérardmer, FR – official selection
- Oudeis International Film Festival – Roma, IT – official selection / finalist
- Wench Film Festival – Mumbai, India – official selection – Grand Prix
- MEME PAS PEUR – Festival International du Film Fantastique – Reunion, FR – official selection
- NEW HORIZONS International Film Festival – Wroclaw, PL – Official selection
- Vienna Shorts – Vienna, AT – New Points of View Award nomination
- CourtMétrage: Festival International du court métrage – Rennes, FR – Official selection / Grand Prix
- CONCORTO Film Festival – Piacenza, IT – Deep Night section
- FEST: New Directors New Films – Espinho, PRT – Official selection
- THIS IS SHORT: International Short Film Network – International – official selection
- L’Etrange Festival – Paris, FR – official selection
Collective exhibitions
2023
- Jeune Création Festival: Paris, FR
- FOTOFESTIVAL : #NOW – Lodz, PL
- Utopias Lahti Visual Arts Festival : Getaway – Lahti, FI
- FOTOFESTIVAL : #NOW – Lodz, PL
2022
- Art Basel Miami : Crypto_Graphics – Miami, US
- Magazzino delle Idee : Io, lei, l’altra – Portraits and photographic self-portraits of women artists, Trieste, IT
- ANALIX Forever : Arc-en-Ciel – Geneva, CHE
- Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS : Circulation(s) Festival – Paris, FR
- Le Fresnoy – Studio national : Panorama 24 – de l’autre côté, Tourcoing, FR
- Grand Palais – Art Up! : Revelations – Foire d’Art Contemporain – Lille, FR
2021
- Renctontres d’Arles : PARALLEL Atlas & The Eyes publishing, Arles, FR
- Le Fresnoy – Studio national : Panorama 23 : par le rêve, Tourcoing, FR
- Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts : Young Portfolio, Kiyosato, JP
- Pavillon Populaire : Les Boutographies – rencontres photographiques, Montpellier, FR
- Austin Desmond Gallery : Staying with the Trouble, London, UK
- Peresvetov Gallery : Beauty as a subculture, Moscow, RU
2020
- PHOTO London – l’étrangère gallery, London, UK
- HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden, Fetish of the Image, Dresden, DE, 2020
- HELLERAU Photography Award : Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, DE
2019
- Warsaw Photo Days International Festival
- The Finnish Museum of Photography, Out of sight: Picturing the unseen, Helsinki, FI
- Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Zeitgeist, Budapest, HU
- OBSCURA Festival of Photography, Subculture, George Town, MY
- Parallel Review, Lisbon, PRT
- The Wrong Biennale – u10 Art Space : Prosthetic, Belgrade, SRB
- Münchner Stadtmuseum, Public / Private, Monachium, DE
- Kaunas Photo Festival, Digital, virtual, real, Kaunas, LT
- SURVIVAL Art Review, Concealed, Wrocław, PL
- ZONA Sztuki Aktualnej, The Masochists, Szczecin, PL
Work experience
06.2018 – 2020
Writer
Lynx Contemporary, art magazine
11.2017 – 2020
Writer
Rynek i Sztuka (Art & Market), art magazine
09.2017 – 01.2018
Photographer
Museum of Warsaw, collection’s digitisation contract
10. – 12.2016
Photographer
Photographee.eu, stock & commercial photography studio
07. – 08.2015
Intern
SFUMATO, studio of theatre and film set design