Patryk Stasieczek's Body as Camera at Wil Aballe Art Projects

Patryk Stasieczek's exhibition at Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver presents the artist's body as a photographic apparatus. Using their lips, tongue, airways, and fluids, Stasieczek holds photographic negatives inside their mouth, contaminating the silver gelatin process to produce abstract images. The work explores the queer body as an agential photographic device, challenging the ethics of queer representation in photography. Stasieczek is a Polish-Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ visual artist and Assistant Professor of Photography at NSCAD University. Their work has been featured with the Pensacola Museum of Art, Peripheral Review, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Centre Clark, Libby Leshgold Gallery, and the Magenta Foundation. The exhibition was curated by Alejandro A. Barbosa, a Latinx 2SLGBTQIA+ visual artist and Non-Regular Faculty at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, who lives and works on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.