MARTA BOGDAŃSKA // Vive la Résistance!
Archivo LAB 2025
Limited Print Edition
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MARTA BOGDAŃSKA
Untitled #1 , from the series "He puts his head in the hippo's mouth and keeps it there awhile", from the project Vive la Résistance!, 2025
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Lenticular print
From an edition of 50, numbered on the reverse
Image size: 15 x 21 cm
Canvas: 25 x 30 cm
Unframed
Vive la résistance! is a long-term, multimedia project exploring animal resistance and agency through archival research, photo-collage, video essays, sound, text, and objects. Building on Marta Bogdańska's earlier work SHIFTERS, it questions how history can be retold from an other-than-human perspective.
During the Archivo Lab'25 programme, Bogdańska focused on organising thousands of collected materials into an archive that reimagines animals as active agents in historical narratives. Using appropriation, recontextualisation, and visual storytelling, she aimed to subvert hegemonic narratives and explore new modes of coexistence. She experimented with pairings, sequencing, and publication layouts, developing a dummy for a future photobook. Inspired by animal imagery aesthetics like 3D postcards, Bogdańska also created a new series, titled He puts his head in the hippo’s mouth and keeps it there awhile, employing lenticular printing to reflect on transformation and autonomy, while exploring ways to subvert the human gaze.
