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A work made of gelatin silver print.

Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

1980, printed 1981

Teresa Gierzyńska Polish, born 1947

At home the woman stood at the hall mirror and looked herself in the eye—not to see anything special but as a way of thinking about herself calmly. She spoke out loud: “I don’t care what you people think. The more you have to say about me, the freer I will be of you. Sometimes I have the impression that the moment we discover something new about a person it stops being true.”

—Peter Handke, The Left-Handed Woman (1976),
quoted by Teresa Gierzyńska in a 2017 exhibition of her work

Gelatin silver print

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