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Mask Closet

The series was influenced by reading the book "Countersexual Manifesto" by philosopher Paul B. Preciado. It rejects the traditional heterosexual contract, replacing it with a new countersexual agreement open to new possibilities. It suggests abandoning classical sexual practices in favor of new methods borrowed from queer culture, operating outside traditional anatomical and cultural divisions. It proposes a theory of the body based on knowledge and pleasure.

Wysocka pays homage to the brilliant, refreshing, sometimes humorous reflection on gender, which for Preciado ceases to be merely performative but also becomes prosthetic, open to performing with the use of "prostheses." She plays with forms resembling dildos, which, despite being toys, are also subject to social and political technologies of construction and control.

Mask closet  2019.
Gouache on paper, 100 x 110 cm
Mask closet I, 2019.
Gouache on paper, 100 x 90 cm
Mask closet II, 2019.
Gouache on paper, 100 x 90 cm
Mask closet III, 2019.
Gouache on paper, 100 x 90 cm
Mask closet IV, 2019.
Gouache on paper, 110 x 89 cm
Mask closet V, 2022.
Gouache on paper, 110 x 100 cm