Teresa Gierzyńska
Born in 1947 in Rypin, Poland. In 1964–65 she went for an educational art trip to Canada. In 1965–1971, she studied at the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in prof. Tadeusz Łodziana’ssculpture studio and prof. Oskar Hansen’s Solids and Planes design studio. Since thelate1960s, photograph and its duplication techniques such as thermocopy or photocopy have become the main tool for the artist's exploration of the representation of women and their role marked by society. Her most known cycle About Herproposes an investigation or introspection within the female identity, the mystical version of feminism, where the photographs are accompanied by adjectives –meaningful titles given to thepictures: Dangerous, Independent, Unapproachable, Mature, Cold, Worried, Thirty Years Old, Useless, Left-handed, Velvety, Caresses, Full of Hope. She lives and works in Warsaw.