ARCHIVO LAB | Visual Artist 2025

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MARTA BOGDAŃSKA

Poland

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Marta Bogdańska (1978, Warsaw) is a Polish visual artist, photographer, filmmaker, cultural manager & educator. She holds MA in philosophy from the University of Warsaw. Marta studied art at the Home Workspace Program in Beirut, where she lived for 8 years. She graduated from Academy of Photography, School of Looking, Open Institute & School of Ecopoetics. She is a member of Futures Photography & Women Photograph. Recently, Marta won the Polish National Grant “Artistic Journey of Hestia” for"Vive la Résistance!” project and the “Artist Meets Archive #4” residency at PhotoSzene Cologne. Her book "SHIFTERS" won the PHotoESPAÑA award for the best international photographic publication of 2022. In 2023 she was the first artist in residency at the Institute for Postnatural Studies in Madrid.

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VIVE LA RÉSISTANCE!

My audio-visual project “Vive la Résistance!”, which continues research from my previous work “SHIFTERS”, combines archival research, photo-collage work, interviews, soundtrack of original audio compositions, video essays, a publication (later on). My main focus is on retelling history, looking for animal point of view and creating another version of an archive (the archive as a model and source for my work but opening paths to new interpretations). I use methodology of appropriation while giving new meaning and contexts to collected existing imagery. At the core of this project is a question: how to talk about other-than-human animal resistance and agency? Inspired by thinkers like É. Baratay, D. Haraway, E. Cohn, J. Hribal, S. Colling, P. Singer, M. Bekoff, A. Jarzyna, J. Ullrich, M. Ullrich, I want to build an artistic response, which will investigate the animal defiances and refusals.