Born 1984 in Wloclawek, Poland. Lives and works in Wloclawek, Poland. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of Photography, both in Warsaw, Poland.

Weronika Gęsicka is one of the leading representatives of contemporary Polish photography. Her central theme is the difference between reality and fiction. To this end, the artist combines archival material, often photographs of an exaggerated and manipulated society of the 1950s, with digital image editing. These subtle alterations create disturbing and revealing scenes of an apparent everyday idyll. Gęsicka addresses the fragility and subjectivity of memories and the essential role photography plays in this process.

In the Cocoon series, expanded by Gęsicka for the INSIGHTS collection, the focus is on the portrait of the seemingly idyllic and perfect home. Here too, the artist uses archival materials and edits them with digital image editing programs. The fine alterations, often only noticeable at second glance, question the interaction between the home as a clichéd stage setting and the people actually living in it. With precise irony, the artist succeeds in portraying the home as a double-edged symbol of both idyll and threat.