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All pastel pink backgrounds and pen-and-ink flowers, the Facebook page for Rumianki i bratki (“Chamomiles and Pansies”) is a shrine to soft-toned beauty brand aesthetics. “We are a newly-established company dealing in the creation and sale of natural cosmetics”, the first, sunflower emoji-studded post reads. On sale are a plethora of immaculately packaged cleansing masks, make-up removers, soaps, and balms. But appearances can be deceiving. In fact, Rumianki i bratki isn’t a beauty site at all.
In Karolina Gembara’s photographs of India, faces are obscured by flowers, pillows, and other body parts. The impression they leave is similar to what one feels when arriving someplace at slightly the wrong time – that something was just missed and no amount of searching will bring it back. When we lie down, grass grows from us (GOST Books, 2019), Gembara’s second monograph, is comprised of photos she took in Delhi between 2009 and 2016.
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