Coming out: o tym, co ze mnie wychodzi. Na marginesach wystawy ‘Potęga sekretów’ Karola Radziszewskiego
Coming Out: on That Which Comes Out of Me. On the Margin of ‘The Power of Secrets’ – an Exhibition of Works by Karol Radziszewski

Summary/Abstract: At attempt at presenting the contents and material dimensions of children’s drawings used by Karol Radziszewski for The Power of Secrets exhibition featured at the Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art in 2019 and 2020. The article poses a question about the category of truth conceived as an implicit effect of the autobiographical gesture and the character of material “proof” that is supposed to testify about that truth. By referring to L’Âge d’Homme by Michel Leiris oraz Denis Hollier’s The Holofernes Headline (Notes about Judith), commenting on the latter, the author of the article attempts to show the convention of the Radziszewski exhibits, which she treats more as a staging than a revelation, a question rather than an answer, and a depiction of a rupture of the subject rather than a manifestation of cohesion. At the same time, Katarzyna Przyłuska-Urbanowicz proposes a new and wider comprehension of the concept of “queering” biography: a quest for precisely that, which remains strange and incomprehensible within us and which belies domesticated identity and the consistent narration spun about it.

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