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Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1980, printed 1981

Artist:

Teresa Gierzyńska
Polish, born 1947

About this artwork

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

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Teresa Gierzyńska

Title

Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1980

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Edition

2 of 2

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.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Sandy Stuart

Reference Number

2019.14

Extended information about this artwork

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