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Patryk Stasieczek’s project configures the artist’s body as a physical photographic apparatus, one that renders their surroundings—professional and personal—onto hundreds of silver gelatin fibre-based paper negatives.
Utilizing their lips, tongue, airways and fluids, Stasieczek holds the referent, that which is depicted, literally in their skull—legible, once developed, mostly as abstraction. The contents of their mouth contaminate the chemistry of the black & white process, pushing against the prescribed becoming of silver halides into metallic silver, rehashing analog photography as a form of alchemy. These operations probe the aesthetic threshold between the interior and exterior of the body as a minor camera obscura which relays otherwise fleeting images that, incessantly, the mouth produces.
In this exhibition, Stasieczek proposes a solution beyond the figurative image to the unresolved ethics of queer agency in photography. The queer body is here brought into question as its…
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Patryk Stasieczek’s project configures the artist’s body as a physical photographic apparatus, one that renders their surroundings—professional and personal—onto hundreds of silver gelatin fibre-based paper negatives.
Utilizing their lips, tongue, airways and fluids, Stasieczek holds the referent, that which is depicted, literally in their skull—legible, once developed, mostly as abstraction. The contents of their mouth contaminate the chemistry of the black & white process, pushing against the prescribed becoming of silver halides into metallic silver, rehashing analog photography as a form of alchemy. These operations probe the aesthetic threshold between the interior and exterior of the body as a minor camera obscura which relays otherwise fleeting images that, incessantly, the mouth produces.
In this exhibition, Stasieczek proposes a solution beyond the figurative image to the unresolved ethics of queer agency in photography. The queer body is here brought into question as its…
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