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As part of the Ellas Crean Festival<\/strong> and under the cultural programme prepared for the Polish presidency of the Council of the EU, the Instituto Polaco de Cultura<\/strong> opens this afternoon at 7 pm in the i23 gallery<\/strong> in Madrid (calle Ibiza, 23) the exhibition Enciclopedia,<\/strong> of Polish photographer Weronika G\u0119sicka.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the past decade, visual artist Weronika G\u0119sicka (1984) has created works and photographic installations that deliberately explore and complicate our perception of visual history, probative knowledge and shared memories. He often works with archival material, and in his latest project, Enciclopedia,<\/em> has extended his exploration with artificial intelligence tools.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n G\u0119sicka graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Warsaw Academy of Photography. He has won numerous awards, including the Polityka Passport 2019 in the Visual Arts category (2020), the EMOP Arendt Award (2019) and Foam Talent (2017). G\u0119sicka\u2019s works have been shown in exhibitions in Poland and around the world. They are in the collections of the Dom Museum in Vienna, the Arendt Collection in Luxembourg, the Deutsche B\u00f6rse Photography Foundation in Germany and the National Museum in Wroc\u0142aw, among others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The encyclopedia is a compendium of knowledge which we consider to be a reliable and credible source of information. A collection of data with which we can confront our doubts. But what happens if a mistake, however small, is taken to something certain and indisputable? Doesn\u2019t this cast doubt on the rest and make it all useless? False entries have existed since the beginning of the history of encyclopedias, dictionaries and lexicons, and functioned, among other things, as protection against plagiarism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Enciclopedia<\/em> exhibition, curated by Katarzyna Sagatowska<\/strong> -from the Jednostka Gallery in Warsaw-, is a project consisting of several hundred false entries found in encyclopedias, dictionaries and lexicons, from different places and different times, illustrated by Weronika G\u0119sicka using manipulated stock photos and AI-generated images. The real begins to work here on an equal footing with the imaginary. The exhibition will be on display until March 23.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Instituto Polaco de Cultura opens this afternoon in the i23 gallery the exhibition Enciclopedia, by the photographer Weronika G\u0119sicka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":111011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":null,"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-art","category-leisure"],"yoast_head":"\n