Martyna Marciniak - Anatomy of Non-Fact

In the organizer's words:

n a time when images can be produced and manipulated on a massive scale, Martyna Marciniak deals with the diverse methods of visual influence and their political, economic and social effects. In Anatomy of Non-Fact, she examines the fragile boundary between reality and fiction, truth and deception.

The exhibition focuses on digitally falsified and AI-generated images, such as that of Pope Francis wearing a coat from the fashion brand Balenciaga - a supposed photo that went viral on social media and gained widespread attention. The artist dissects these images, analyzes the data on which they are based and deconstructs their substance. Like a forensic scientist, she explores the visual "anatomy" of the so-called "non-facts" and deciphers the complex processes and mechanisms underlying them.

Martina Marciniak makes the influence of synthetic images on our collective understanding of truth visible. In doing so, she poses the central question of what form knowledge and reality take and how they can be transformed and reshaped through manipulation.

Curated by Hannah Eckstein and Marisa Zeising

Martyna Marciniak, born in 1991 in Poznań, Poland, graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London in 2017. She worked as an exhibition designer and was a researcher at Forensic Architecture in London and at Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from 2018 to 2021. Since 2021, she has been researching stories of victims on the Polish-Belarusian border with the Border Emergency Collective.

She was Artist in Residence at the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau (2018) and at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (2024). Her works have been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival, the Warsaw Biennale, Kinema ICON in Bucharest, Haus Gropius in Dessau and the deTour Festival in Hong Kong, among others. Martyna Marciniak lives and works in Berlin.