Stepping Out Into This Almost Empty Road. Monika Orpik

Agata Bartkowiak

In her book “Stepping Out Into This Almost Empty Road”, Monika Orpik combines two seemingly contradictory artistic practices - working with photographic images and working with text. The image layer traverses a specific territory, an area in the vicinity of the Bialowieza Forest. The dreamy, faded photographs, on the one hand, are a documentation of a specific landscape and events happening in the area from August 2020, when the revolution in Belarus began, through 2021 marking the migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border and resulting in the construction of a border wall, until 2022, the year of Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine.

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