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Oswajam się

Getting used to myself

On touch, the male body and closeness without automatic labels.

Date
c. 2011–12
Role
Concept, photography, text
Medium
Photography & text
Context
Drawing, 2nd year — prof. Piotr Kurka · University of the Arts, Poznań

“I am getting used to being a human, not only a man.” The series plays with images of male hands and the body to ask why closeness between men — walking hand in hand, sitting on a friend’s lap, simply touching — so quickly becomes suspicious.

The accompanying text questions how we look at bodies: as vehicles for our ambitions, as idealised advertising, or as ourselves. “I play with motifs because I hope ambiguity lives in them.” The photographs focus on the body in general, not as a sexual object.

OSWAJAM SIĘ