Nov 11, 2024

Martyna Marciniak presents »Anatomy of Non-Fact« at Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen

Still from »Anatomy of Non-Fact«, Martyna Marciniak, 2024

At a time when images can be produced and manipulated en masse, Martyna Marciniak (fellow in the Digital sphere of practice 2024) explores the diverse methods of visual influence and their political, economic, and societal impacts. In Anatomy of Non-Fact, she examines the fragile boundary between reality and fiction, truth and deception.

The exhibition focuses on digitally altered and AI-generated images, such as the viral image of Pope Francis wearing a coat by the fashion brand Balenciaga — supposed photo that gained wide attention on social media. The artist dissects these images, analyzing the data underlying them and deconstructing their substance. Like a forensic investigator, she explores the visual anatomy of so-called »non-facts« and unravels the complex processes and mechanisms behind them.

Martyna Marciniak makes the impact of synthetic images on our collective understanding of truth visible. In doing so, she raises the central question of what form knowledge and reality take, and how they can be transformed and reshaped through manipulation.

Curated by Hannah Eckstein and Marisa Zeising.

Exhibition Opening: Saturday, November 16, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. as part of the Long Night of Museums
On view: until January 19, 2025
Where: Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Marktplatz 1, 71063 Sindelfingen
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday: 10 a.m.–6 p.m. / Saturday, Sunday, Holidays: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.

Admission is free!

Martyna Marciniak (*1991 in Poznań, Poland) completed her architecture studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London in 2017. She has worked as an exhibition designer and was a researcher at Forensic Architecture in London from 2018 to 2021. She has also worked with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. Since 2021, she has been researching stories of victims at the Polish-Belarusian border with the Border Emergency Collective.

She was an Artist in Residence at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau (2018) and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2024). Her works have been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival, the Warsaw Biennale, Kinema ICON in Bucharest, the Gropius House in Dessau, and the deTour Festival in Hong Kong. Martyna Marciniak lives and works in Berlin.

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