The photograph represents WetMeWild, Justyna Górowska’s incarnation as a water cyber–nymph. Her artistic creation zooms in on the function of art in times of techno-corporatisation and the global water crisis. The photograph is accompanied by an augmented reality video displayed in the WetMeWild application designed by the artist. The video evokes a Windows 95 interface with errors appearing when displaying plastic-contaminated waters, as well as a blue screen with a TECHNOvirus. The photograph was created in collaboration with Tadeusz Rolke, the legendary founder of Polish reportage photography.
Justyna Górowska, born is 1988, is an interdisciplinary artist, board member of the Foundation for the Development of Intermedia Art, and scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2011, 2013). From 2008 to 2014 she studied at the Faculty of Intermedia, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where she was also an assistant at the Performance Art Studio from 2018 to 2019. She is a graduate of the Indonesian Institute of Art in Yogyakarta. She received her PhD from the Faculty of Multimedia Communication, University of the Arts Poznań. Górowska focuses predominantly on performance, photography, video, sculpture, installation, and site-specific projects. She lives in Skawa in the Western Beskidy. She won the main prize of the 7th edition of the competition Samsung Art Master at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw (2010) and the Grand Prix of the 3rd Festival of Young Art Przeciąg in Szczecin (2011).