Zofia RYDET (1911-1997)

Behind the Wall of Life from the World of Feelings and Imagination series

1975-1979
gelatin silver print, 28.4 × 24.1 cm,
artist’s stamp on the reverse
vintage print

"Probably, some of those who posed for the photomontages from the early 1970s have already met their fate; the expectations of others - those who are, in the album, an allegory of flourishing and hope - are now being put to a test by fate. The people appear to be one, even though each of them lives their own life [...]." - this is what Urszula Czartoryska wrote about the World of Feelings and Imagination at the time of Rydet’s exhibition in the FF Gallery in Łódź in 1990, over ten years after the first album presenting the series was published, with the foreword by Czartoryska.
Major exhibitions of the series: Zofia Rydet. Photographs, National Museum in Wrocław (2000); Zofia Rydet. The Arc of Realism, Photoireland Festival, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, Ireland (2011); Necessary Complement, Silesian Museum, Katowice (2012); Zofia Rydet. Inventorying the Image of Man, Photomonth, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012).