Aneta Grzeszykowska — Untitled Film Stills #30, 2006 — Artist Postcard, Raster Gallery, Warsaw

Artist postcard / exhibition card
Raster Gallery, Warsaw
15 × 10.5 cm
Offset print on light card stock
2006

Postcard issued by Warsaw’s Raster Gallery in connection with Aneta Grzeszykowska’s Untitled Film Stills series (2006) — a direct and knowingly unstable remake of Cindy Sherman’s canonical late-1970s photographic cycle. Rather than simple appropriation, Grzeszykowska restages Sherman’s constructed femininity through generational return: the younger artist re-performs the earlier artist’s fictional selves, producing a doubled image already haunted by repetition, authorship, and photographic memory.

The reverse text positions the work alongside Grzeszykowska’s broader investigations into self-erasure and substitution, including her Berlin Biennale-associated project Album. What makes this small card compelling now is how clearly it belongs to a transitional moment in post-conceptual image culture: pre-social media, but already deeply concerned with reproduction, identity circulation, and the instability of the original image.

Raster Gallery was central to the emergence of a younger Polish contemporary art scene in the 2000s, making these early printed supports increasingly difficult to locate outside institutional archives or retained personal collections. Scarcity is moderate to high — Raster printed matter from this period surfaces infrequently, particularly material tied to Grzeszykowska’s early internationally recognised photographic works. The Sherman connection gives the object a secondary art-historical gravity beyond regional ephemera.

Positioned within Polish contemporary art ephemera, feminist photography material, and Sherman-related post-conceptual print culture.

Condition: Very good vintage condition. Minor surface wear, faint handling marks, light age toning consistent with mailed or stored gallery ephemera.

Shipping and handling included.