Magdalena Franczuk (b.1992, Poland) & Ashkan Honarvar (b.1980, Iran)

Zła uczennica, The bad schoolgirl in Polish, is a collaborative project by Polish photographer Magdalena Franczuk and Norway-based Iranian collage artist Ashkan Honarvar that revolves around the notion of Lolita and coming of age. Magdalena writes the short story about the project: “She was sitting at her desk, trying to do her biology homework. Something, however, prevented her from focusing. She tilted her head back and began to look at all the scratches and cracks on the ceiling. She narrowed her eyes to give an abstract shape to the map these lines make. The end of her fountain pen unwittingly wandered toward the open lips and gently dipped into a warm breath. The girl did not even notice when a single drop of ink dripped from the nib straight onto an unwritten piece of paper.”

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