Have you ever tried to search on Google for photos of families on holiday, walks in the park or kisses at sunset?
What comes out are fake halo images, perfect smiles and places so incredible that they are, maybe, not even real.
Those are stock images and the Polish artist Weronika Gesicka investigates their truth and gives them a second life.

Taking as a point of reference the classic photos that tell american usages and customs in the ’50s and’ 60s, the Gesick love to manipolate the past altering the reality of those real families, or formed by actors, symbol, a little bit weak, of a past era.

Traces not only questions the truthfulness of these symbols, but also wants to emphasize how memory can be manipulated, erased and changed at will, playing with stereotypes but also irony.
There is no certainty of the past if the present can change it.