Places of Power

Using the medium of photography my goal is to document spaces intentionally created and organized for ideological usage, places, that are functioning in the universe of values and ideas.I treat the space as it was a text that carries ideas and meaning. Therefore I try to create photos not only to be seen but also to be read from. The space is able to express a visual language that represents a certain symbolism, a history, an ideology and even its creators. The key to the selection was to choose organizations that already are or willing to be recognized by the public and intend to have an impact on the society. The project’s interest is to discover the backstage or hinterland of these organizations. The project includes some of the major offices of political parties, Non Governmental Organisations and institutionalized initiatives functioning in Poland.
I would like to raise the question of how the ideological domestication is being made; what is the current state of democracy; what is common, visible for a certain community; who is the subject, and who is an object of ideological narration.

KATARZYNA ZOLICH( born 1983 in Bielsko-Biała), PhD student at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Pedagogical University in Krakow, graduated from the Academy of Photography (Krakow, 2014) and Cultural Studies at Jagiellonian University (2009).

Artist is present at the opening