“Zła uczennica” series is a collaboration between Polish photographer Magdalena Franczuk and Iranian collage artist Ashkan Honarvar. The work revolved around the notion of Lolita and coming of age. The title of this project means “the bad schoolgirl” in Polish.
The vision behind the work, as described by artists: “She was sitting at her desk, trying to do her biology homework. Something, however, prevented her from focusing. She tilted her head back and began to look at all the scratches and cracks on the ceiling. She narrowed her eyes to give an abstract shape to the map these lines make.
The end of her fountain pen unwittingly wandered toward the open lips and gently dipped into a warm breath. The girl did not even notice when a single drop of ink dripped from the nib straight onto an unwritten piece of paper.”
Magdalena Franczuk was born in 1992, in Wrocław, Poland. Currently based in Łódź, she is a photography student at The Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź.
Ashkan Honarvar attended School of Visual Arts in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He has exhibited work internationally at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York and Paris, Centro De Arte Contemporáneo de Quito in Ecuador, International Collage Center in Texas, Le Petite Mort Gallery in Ottawa, and the Katonah Museum of Art in upstate New York.
Images courtesy of Magdalena Franczuk and Ashkan Honarvar
Discover: www.magdalenafranczuk.com | www.ashkanhonarvar.com
