Milena Natalia Soporowska [Warsaw, Poland] – studied History of Art [main faculty] at College of Inter-area Individual Humanistic and Social Studies [University of Warsaw, 2014] and photography at The Society of Polish Art Photographers [Warsaw, 2012, graduated with distinction] and Academy of Photography [Warsaw, 2013]. Currently studying Museology. Laureate of the 5th edition of ShowOFF contest for young talents at XI Photomonth in Cracow [2013, project: Guest Rooms, curator: Bownik]. Co-founder of curatorial project ABBILD. Curator and co-organizer of several group exhibitions: URBILD/ABBILD [lokal_30 gallery, Warsaw, 2013], The World Picture [under the auspices of Anda Rottenberg, Branicki Palace, Warsaw, 2014], UN/CANNY [Starter gallery, Warsaw, 2014] and Too much life [LAW gallery, Warsaw, 2017]. Scholarship holder at Summer Academy in Traunkirchen [2012] and Salzburg International Academy of Fine Arts [2014]. Took part in various group shows. Interested in spiritism and psychoanalysis. Writer and techno promoter.
As a practitioner, I am interested in the image within the meaning of visual culture. As a “picture” I understand every kind of notion taking mental and/or physical form. I am particularly interested in mediated images interpreted in terms of objet trouvé tradition.
As a theorist, I am concerned about the reception and production of images as social and cultural activities. Inspired by thought of Hans Belting, I study the triadic relation between an image, a man and his body. I am also interested in the role of text and psychoanalysis in image creation.
