Agnieszka Sosnowska

Agnieszka Sosnowska
Self Portrait, 2023
Paper Size: 18x22 inches
Edition of 10
Inkjet print produced by Light Work and signed by the artist.

There’s a saying in Iceland, “August is the darkest month.” In Iceland, my home, it is the first time after many months that we see the night sky. It always comes as a small shock. You know the darkness is on its way. After months of continuous light we enter continuous night.

Your eyes begin to squint more to adjust. The darkness takes your senses. By December we experience near total darkness. Perhaps two to four hours of daylight might occur depending on the weather. During these times I chase the light. I become still in its quiet. I try to take the dark in with all my being.

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Agnieszka Sosnowska was born in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Boston University. She is currently an elementary school teacher. She has lived on farm in East Iceland for the past twenty years.

Her first monograph entitled “För” was published by Trespasser books in 2024. 
Sosnowska has been the recipient of a number of grants, including a Fulbright Scholars Fellowship to Poland and an American Scandinavian Fellowship to Iceland. She was awarded the Hjálmar R. Bárðarson Photography Grant by the National Museum of Iceland.

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