Gabriela Palicka 66°33’39"S – 90S

supervisor: dr Bogna Otto-Węgrzyn
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Faculty of Art

biography

born  in 1992. She lives and works in Katowice, Poland. Graduated from Graphic Art at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Predominantly creates drawings and graphics. She is desperately searching for a new way of expression, surprisingly, still ending up at the starting point. Currently, she wonders who she will become when she grows up. Finalist of 16th edition of hestia Artistic Jurney.

Book consists of interesting facts about Antarctica. Each text is accompanied by an illustration and assigned to a specific location. Usual pagination is replaced by geographic latitude. It begins at Northernmost location and ends at South Pole. The majority of pages are empty (except coordinates), representing ice covered areas. Map at the beginning serves as a table of content. Book aims to embrace Antarctica as a land of unknown with isolated human habitats devoted to reserch it.