Sylvia Rybak is a 19 year old photographer from Warsaw, now living and studying in Berlin, who turns kitsch into art. By meticulously building unique sets inspired by small absurdities she sees in everyday life she explores the unconscious and the absurd in a very instagrammable way.
In Sylvia Rybak’s photographic world humans are reduced to something purely visual. She playfully arranges isolated body parts, like hands, alongside other objects. “I am mainly inspired by things that are considered kitsch and explore them as aesthetic phenomena, similarly like in the Camp aesthetic sensibility. Sometimes just one object triggers a whole range of ideas, for example an ashtray I found in the flea market inspired me to make a whole series about pseudo-glamour and beauty”, she explains.
