Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

Description

At home the woman stood at the hall mirror and looked herself in the eye—not to see anything special but as a way of thinking about herself calmly. She spoke out loud: “I don’t care what you people think. The more you have to say about me, the freer I will be of you. Sometimes I have the impression that the moment we discover something new about a person it stops being true.”

—Peter Handke, The Left-Handed Woman (1976),
quoted by Teresa Gierzyńska in a 2017 exhibition of her work

Full of Hope (from the series About Her)

Teresa Gierzyńska

1980, printed 1981

Accession Number

248782

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image, approx: 22.5 × 17 cm (8 7/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Paper/mount: 28.6 × 19.4 cm (11 5/16 × 7 11/16 in.)

Classification

photography

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Robin and Sandy Stuart