Joanna ZEMANEK (ur. 1979)

Wedding Dress bw (1) and (2) from the Wedding Dress series

2014/2017
two photographs printed on silk, embroidery, iron scorch mark,
29 x 21 cm - each, frame made by the artist sized 38 x 30.3 x 12 cm,
signed, dated, titled, described on the bottom of each frame,
unique objects

These works come from the Wedding Dress collection of works, which is a subset of the Error Occurred portfolio. As Grzegorz Sztwiertnia notes, "(...) Zemanek’s works tell female stories to both women and men. The narrative she creates depends on the concrete theme she takes up or the material through which she materialises the stories. Precious silk, vaginal motifs painted with coloured inks, wedding dresses smouldered with hundreds of presses of a steaming hot iron, ready-mades - phallic ironing boards, video sequences with the artist silently facing the camera - all these make up a story that is heterogeneous in formal terms, but coherent thematically." (Format art journal, No. 73, 2016).