Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies
Łucja Staszkiewicz
Born in 2001. Studies: Faculty of Artistic Research and Curatorial Studies of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (bachelor’s degree 2020–2023, master’s degree since 2023). Scholarship of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts (2019/20, 2020/21 2022/23). In her research, she focuses on the field of feminist art from the transformation period and trans studies; in her curatorial and artistic work, she concentrates on (trans) girl experiences and creating space for the exchange of knowledge together with other members of Zwykła Dziewczyna Kolektyw. Co-author of exhibitions, e.g. “Here I Come!” (2021) and “The Mysterious Girl from the Last Desk” (2023), and the project “Artistic, Capital, Social” for the Warsaw Observatory of Culture (2023).
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.
