How to Take Power from the Old Eye that Knows, 2018 – 2021
Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza sets an ambush, a trap for the viewer, as she acts like a seasoned commander in these carefully composed and thought-out photographs – instinctive and spontaneous, with certain repeated and well-established in visual tradition, conventional props and situations, intended to draw the enemy into a trap, as the artists sends the viewer a false signal, which is to encourage the opponent to take the wrong step, take the challenge. This signal is a unit sent as bait, which is to persuade them to attack, give chase. (...) The opponent against whom Aleksandra Młynarczyk-Gemza is waging war here is a certain perceptual habit, developed by culture, banking-corporate-surveillance turbocapitalism, a commodification of our perception and relations, and finally the apparent eroticization and sexualisation of the visual sphere, which is, however, constantly accompanied by an essentially intact patriarchal axiology, restrictive, judgmental, dogmatic, ruthless for "error", " derogation", "deviation", " deflection from the norm" ... I am tempted to call it "man's eye", which, however, may be a bit misleading... – Bartłomiej Dobroczyński.
