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Teresa Gierzyńska Polish, born 1947

Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

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Teresa Gierzyńska Polish, born 19471980, printed 1981

Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

Teresa Gierzyńska Polish, born 1947 →

20th Centuryphotographyphotograph

Date

1980, printed 1981

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image, approx: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper/mount: 28.6 × 19.4 cm (11 5/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Sandy Stuart

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

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