(..), 2000-2005

A video and a series of photographs

The film deals with the issue of voyeurism. Watching women bears a distant echo of longing for polygamy; at the same time - since women are treated as objects of lustful observation - their bodies lose their integrity. Only hips and bums remain – the connotations of fertility. Here comes surrogate, visual, connoisseur consumption of female bodies. The film (..) refers ironically to the tradition of art and reveals an approach that used to be hidden in the structure of works. The artist does not identify himself with an apparently neutral universal eye any more. In a sense, having power over female bodies, executed by treating them as an object of watching, becomes shameful obsession. The soundtrack is an Indian raga, representing high and refined erotic Oriental culture.
Note, exhibition catalogue “Boys,” Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow 2005

In 2000, I began working on (..) in Canterbury, and finished it three years later in Paris. (..) is a series (collection) of photographs of female buttocks, random, close by, in the street. Voyeuristic photographs, naughty actually, they don’t express my shame, fear, or sweat, no second thoughts when coming close enough and harassing the person by zooming in on her bum. It’s not in the prints but it is easy to imagine. Additionally, this way of taking photos is crucial to the work: if they were posed, they wouldn’t be any different from adverts or video clips.
Łukasz Skąpski, Seria i typologia jako metoda w sztuce, PhD dissertation, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, 2005

Exhibitions
2005“Boys,” Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow

Bibliography
Exhibition catalogue “Boys,” Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow 2005

Monika Branicka and Łukasz Guzek, O czym jest wystawa “Boys”?, www.spam.art.pl, [58] 11.07.2005
Monika Małkowska, Parada infantylnych erotomanów, “Rzeczpospolita,” June 2005
Marek Wasilewski, Maszyny, “Piktogram” no. 3 2006

Łukasz Skąpski, Seria i typologia jako metoda w sztuce, PhD dissertation, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, 2005