This is not Real Life
Pologne
2018Artiste invitée
Nobody was born and nobody has died here. Nobody can be buried here: bodies cannot decompose here. Nobody can be born here:
pregnant women have to go back on dry land to give birth. No cats, trees, or traffic lights. Winter is nothing but night and summer is nothing but day. This is Longyearbyen. This is the last city in the northern part of our planet, on Norwegian territories. Many people fall in love with this place: they planned a two-week stay and end up living there for five years. But nobody really settles in here.
With the support of the Polish Institute in Paris.
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About the artist
Dominika Gesicka was born in Poland in 1981. She lives and works in Warsaw, where she graduated in Economy from the Warsaw School of Economics. She also studied at the Institute of Creative Photography of Opava in Czech Republic. In 2017, she was awarded the first position at the Fotofestival of Łódz, in Poland, for his series entitled This Is Not Real Life.