I wrote the degree piece on using a trans body in Polish art of the transformation period because I felt the need to examine the phenomenon, based on feminist theory and trans studies. As I followed the projects by Katarzyna Kozyra and Alicja Żebrowska, I wanted to emphasise the fact that a trans body was used to illustrate the transformation experience at a time of its endangerment due to new policies – restricted access to transition, abortion, and contraception in the 1990s. Moving on to projects by Barbara Konopka and Piotr Wysocki from 2007, I intended to recall the works that try to talk about the transition experience in a well-grounded, intimate, and sensitive way.

The visual component is a Tumblr fantasy on a trans girl’s experience in a cyberpunk Warsaw, which is unfortunately not girl-friendly. It is often humorous, but sometimes serious, because I am not always able to hold my seriousness back.