Diogenes z Łomianek-Dąbrowy. Przemysław Kwiek wobec ideologii transformacji
Diogenes from Łomianki-Dąbrowa: Przemysław Kwiek and the Ideology of the Transformation

Summary/Abstract: The article is the first study of Przemysław Kwiek's work from the period of postcommunist transformation. Based on a method of symptomatic reading of ideology (Slavoj Žižek), the author analyzes Kwiek's work as a repressed symptom of the transformation, a blind spot of its ideology. To do so, he uses two metaphors: kynicism and cynicism (Peter Sloterdijk), treating Kwiek as an exponent of a kynical attitude. The main thesis of the article is as follows: Kwiek's work is not a part of the canon of the Polish art of the 1990s because, as radically critical of the neoliberal shock therapy, it could not fit into the ideological framework of the epoch. Significantly, this was also true of art history, dominated by gender or identity issues typical for the transformation. The article proposes to look at Kwiek's attitude as a potentiality to complement these themes with a critique of the economic (including class) basics of transformation. The article extensively examines Kwiek's work, placing it within such a critical project.

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