art photo 14. RYDET Zofia - Landscapes, from the series The World of Feelings and Imagination [1975-1979].

Gelatin-silver print, vintage, paper. 24x23.7 cm, author's stamp on back, handwritten title given by the artist.

Zofia Rydet is one of the most interesting Polish photographers of the 20th century. She is the author of, among other things, surrealistic collages titled. "The world of feelings and imagination", created in 1975-1979. From this series comes the offered collage entitled "Landscapes". According to a researcher of Rydet's work, the artistic language of these collages is related to the experience of aphasia. "The painful memories, which were also marked by Rydet's loss of loved ones, were so strong that they did not fit into the language. Indeed, she had to escape this uncomfortable memory, she had to, at least ostensibly, renounce what had been building up in her over the years, what was source and first in her. She couldn't express it in language, in words, but she came to believe that the visual language, the language of photography, was a thousand times stronger and more powerful than words. This metaphorical aphasia simultaneously became the leaven for her visual creativity, keeping her for the next forty years in a state of constant excitement and unbridled creative energy irrational and puzzling." (K.J.)