Marcela Paniak

Entering Marcela Paniak's visual universe is something of an extraordinary journey. This young Polish photographer skillfully uses “intermediality” and plays with photography as an artifact or a materialized souvenir. Memory and its process are at the center of her work, suitable for introspection. What is drawn out of it is a moving innocence, an overwhelming and almost unreal feeling of nostalgia.(http://www.photography-magazine.net/interviews/sensorial-experiment-memory-marcela-paniaks-sound-and-photomontages)
This is how the artist describe her work: " Discovered objects have their own memory. Although in their degraded and deprived form, they may have lost their original individuality, they still store in themselves a part of history. In my photographs, I am attempt to stop time—if only for an instant—to allow these old elements to gain new form." (https://www.lensculture.com/articles/marcela-paniak-rediscovered-objects-giving-new-life-to-the-past#slide-8)

These photos look pretty simple. Just some objects on a flat background. But the artist  made some decisions that  gave a specific  quality to these photos, such as textures in the background, black and white photos, and  putting different parts of different objects together to make a new object. Every piece of each object  has come from a different place and has its own story, and we can see all these different stories coming together and fixed in the photographs. With this view, she successfully played with the concept of time and history. It seems that time is fixed, and the objects  frozen in these  photos.

Link to artist's website:
http://marcepani.art.pl/index.php?i=przedmioty&lang=en