"If she suddenly stood, here, now, before me" what would I tell her? Like a river that is never the same, neither the observer nor the observed ever remains unchanged. Drawing on Heraclitus' concept of constant flux - on one hand - and on the quantum physics idea of time that all possible states coexist - on the other - the author creates encounters of different selves. She photographs on analogue film for one year, then returns to the same negative after five years to expose it again. The layered images become visual traces of imagined meetings with another version of oneself.
Visual artist based in Warsaw, Poland, her idea for the diploma at University of Arts in Poznan was initially treated as provocation and rejected to finish among the best diplomas of the year (2013). Her photographic talent have been recognized more than once, to mention the first place in Bernard Faucon competition, "Le plus beau jour de ma jeunesse", an honorable mention in IPA or publication in "Le tour du monde" album, Éditions de l'Œil. Natkaniec areas of interest concentrate around the unconscious, wasteland and the relationships between photography and the lapse of time.
