Many artists play along with the historical iconography of the past. They look for inspiration to old books, magazines, or films. The practice of Konrad Maciejewicz can be seen as an example of such an approach. With a background in painting and graphics, the artist turned to collages, employing photographs from Polish women’s magazines from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s – he seems equally interested in their imperfect mechanical visuality, as with the air of oddity, or even terror, they evoke.