JOUIS­SANCE Marek Wodzisławski 3 VII 2020 – 29 VIII 2020 Gdańsk City Gal­lery CUR­ATOR Gab­rie­la Wa­rzyc­ka-Tu­tak

Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

The World Turned In­side Out

To oth­ers, the uni­verse seems de­cent be­cause de­cent people have gel­ded eyes. That is why they fear lewd­ness. They are never frightened by the crow­ing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In gen­eral, people savor the ‘pleas­ure of the flesh’ only on con­di­tion that they be in­sipid.

The World Turned In­side Out

To oth­ers, the uni­verse seems de­cent be­cause de­cent people have gel­ded eyes. That is why they fear lewd­ness. They are never frightened by the crow­ing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In gen­eral, people savor the ‘pleas­ure of the flesh’ only on con­di­tion that they be in­sipid.

The World Turned In­side Out

To oth­ers, the uni­verse seems de­cent be­cause de­cent people have gel­ded eyes. That is why they fear lewd­ness. They are never frightened by the crow­ing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In gen­eral, people savor the ‘pleas­ure of the flesh’ only on con­di­tion that they be in­sipid.

The World Turned In­side Out

To oth­ers, the uni­verse seems de­cent be­cause de­cent people have gel­ded eyes. That is why they fear lewd­ness. They are never frightened by the crow­ing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In gen­eral, people savor the ‘pleas­ure of the flesh’ only on con­di­tion that they be in­sipid.

The World Turned In­side Out

To oth­ers, the uni­verse seems de­cent be­cause de­cent people have gel­ded eyes. That is why they fear lewd­ness. They are never frightened by the crow­ing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In gen­eral, people savor the ‘pleas­ure of the flesh’ only on con­di­tion that they be in­sipid.

Georges Ba­taille, Story of the Eye*

Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

Ab­so­lute pleas­ure, bliss. Af­firm­a­tion. Elu­sive, non-verbal, half-li­quid, spill­ing out in the land­scape, in­und­at­ing cit­ies like thick fog.

The geo­metry of the sky and the sun often pre­vents us from see­ing the nu­ances. After the sun­set, the body can fi­nally lib­er­ate it­self from the pres­sure to trace the sun, it can go into the state of trans­gres­sion.

Lib­er­a­tion from the rein of physiology, hor­mones and phys­ics al­lows the tide of bliss to flood the head, without look­ing back. Stunned, it falls into the arms of abyss.

Ab­so­lute pleas­ure, bliss. Af­firm­a­tion. Elu­sive, non-verbal, half-li­quid, spill­ing out in the land­scape, in­und­at­ing cit­ies like thick fog.

The geo­metry of the sky and the sun often pre­vents us from see­ing the nu­ances. After the sun­set, the body can fi­nally lib­er­ate it­self from the pres­sure to trace the sun, it can go into the state of trans­gres­sion.

Lib­er­a­tion from the rein of physiology, hor­mones and phys­ics al­lows the tide of bliss to flood the head, without look­ing back. Stunned, it falls into the arms of abyss.

Ab­so­lute pleas­ure, bliss. Af­firm­a­tion. Elu­sive, non-verbal, half-li­quid, spill­ing out in the land­scape, in­und­at­ing cit­ies like thick fog.

The geo­metry of the sky and the sun often pre­vents us from see­ing the nu­ances. After the sun­set, the body can fi­nally lib­er­ate it­self from the pres­sure to trace the sun, it can go into the state of trans­gres­sion.

Lib­er­a­tion from the rein of physiology, hor­mones and phys­ics al­lows the tide of bliss to flood the head, without look­ing back. Stunned, it falls into the arms of abyss.

Ab­so­lute pleas­ure, bliss. Af­firm­a­tion. Elu­sive, non-verbal, half-li­quid, spill­ing out in the land­scape, in­und­at­ing cit­ies like thick fog.

The geo­metry of the sky and the sun often pre­vents us from see­ing the nu­ances. After the sun­set, the body can fi­nally lib­er­ate it­self from the pres­sure to trace the sun, it can go into the state of trans­gres­sion.

Lib­er­a­tion from the rein of physiology, hor­mones and phys­ics al­lows the tide of bliss to flood the head, without look­ing back. Stunned, it falls into the arms of abyss.

Ab­so­lute pleas­ure, bliss. Af­firm­a­tion. Elu­sive, non-verbal, half-li­quid, spill­ing out in the land­scape, in­und­at­ing cit­ies like thick fog.

The geo­metry of the sky and the sun often pre­vents us from see­ing the nu­ances. After the sun­set, the body can fi­nally lib­er­ate it­self from the pres­sure to trace the sun, it can go into the state of trans­gres­sion.

Lib­er­a­tion from the rein of physiology, hor­mones and phys­ics al­lows the tide of bliss to flood the head, without look­ing back. Stunned, it falls into the arms of abyss.

Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak
Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

Do you de­sire me, will you eat me? Eat me… “… we de­vour each other, while being ir­re­voc­ably doomed to being de­voured ourselves. Our des­tiny is to exist owing to nour­ish­ment in the form of other creatures, and to be­come nour­ish­ment for oth­ers.”** A cos­mic feast in an in­stru­mental re­la­tion­ship, in which you hear: I WILL EAT YOU, while the words EAT ME are echoed in bliss.

Do you de­sire me, will you eat me? Eat me… “… we de­vour each other, while being ir­re­voc­ably doomed to being de­voured ourselves. Our des­tiny is to exist owing to nour­ish­ment in the form of other creatures, and to be­come nour­ish­ment for oth­ers.”** A cos­mic feast in an in­stru­mental re­la­tion­ship, in which you hear: I WILL EAT YOU, while the words EAT ME are echoed in bliss.

Do you de­sire me, will you eat me? Eat me… “… we de­vour each other, while being ir­re­voc­ably doomed to being de­voured ourselves. Our des­tiny is to exist owing to nour­ish­ment in the form of other creatures, and to be­come nour­ish­ment for oth­ers.”** A cos­mic feast in an in­stru­mental re­la­tion­ship, in which you hear: I WILL EAT YOU, while the words EAT ME are echoed in bliss.

Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak
Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak
Mieszkanka – wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

The bull was dis­trust­ful, the fight took a slug­gish course.
 
Jouis­sance is a lens that al­lows us to see the world gone mon­strous. It is a crit­ical pas­sage, un­touch­able in its sac­red­ness, that tells the story of a world greater than the human world. The story of a place situ­ated some­where on the peri­pher­ies of cul­ture for many, un­known from dir­ect ex­per­i­ence, but vis­ited in the ima­gin­a­tion, where the human – an­imal bor­der be­comes slightly blurred. Human being be­comes noth­ing more than one of a great many spe­cies.

In an era brim­ming with im­ages, ideo­lo­gies, con­sump­tion, over­pro­duc­tion of thoughts, ac­tions, words – what do we con­sider a taboo? What does the di­men­sion look like that we are un­able to wade through? It often hap­pens that, in our thoughts, we move on the for­bid­den side, we teeter on the edge, stray­ing, slid­ing into the night.

How nice it would be to see the sun in pro­file.***

The bull was dis­trust­ful, the fight took a slug­gish course.
 
Jouis­sance is a lens that al­lows us to see the world gone mon­strous. It is a crit­ical pas­sage, un­touch­able in its sac­red­ness, that tells the story of a world greater than the human world. The story of a place situ­ated some­where on the peri­pher­ies of cul­ture for many, un­known from dir­ect ex­per­i­ence, but vis­ited in the ima­gin­a­tion, where the human – an­imal bor­der be­comes slightly blurred. Human being be­comes noth­ing more than one of a great many spe­cies.

In an era brim­ming with im­ages, ideo­lo­gies, con­sump­tion, over­pro­duc­tion of thoughts, ac­tions, words – what do we con­sider a taboo? What does the di­men­sion look like that we are un­able to wade through? It often hap­pens that, in our thoughts, we move on the for­bid­den side, we teeter on the edge, stray­ing, slid­ing into the night.

How nice it would be to see the sun in pro­file.***

The bull was dis­trust­ful, the fight took a slug­gish course.
 
Jouis­sance is a lens that al­lows us to see the world gone mon­strous. It is a crit­ical pas­sage, un­touch­able in its sac­red­ness, that tells the story of a world greater than the human world. The story of a place situ­ated some­where on the peri­pher­ies of cul­ture for many, un­known from dir­ect ex­per­i­ence, but vis­ited in the ima­gin­a­tion, where the human – an­imal bor­der be­comes slightly blurred. Human being be­comes noth­ing more than one of a great many spe­cies.

In an era brim­ming with im­ages, ideo­lo­gies, con­sump­tion, over­pro­duc­tion of thoughts, ac­tions, words – what do we con­sider a taboo? What does the di­men­sion look like that we are un­able to wade through? It often hap­pens that, in our thoughts, we move on the for­bid­den side, we teeter on the edge, stray­ing, slid­ing into the night.

How nice it would be to see the sun in pro­file.***

The bull was dis­trust­ful, the fight took a slug­gish course.
 
Jouis­sance is a lens that al­lows us to see the world gone mon­strous. It is a crit­ical pas­sage, un­touch­able in its sac­red­ness, that tells the story of a world greater than the human world. The story of a place situ­ated some­where on the peri­pher­ies of cul­ture for many, un­known from dir­ect ex­per­i­ence, but vis­ited in the ima­gin­a­tion, where the human – an­imal bor­der be­comes slightly blurred. Human being be­comes noth­ing more than one of a great many spe­cies.

In an era brim­ming with im­ages, ideo­lo­gies, con­sump­tion, over­pro­duc­tion of thoughts, ac­tions, words – what do we con­sider a taboo? What does the di­men­sion look like that we are un­able to wade through? It often hap­pens that, in our thoughts, we move on the for­bid­den side, we teeter on the edge, stray­ing, slid­ing into the night.

How nice it would be to see the sun in pro­file.***

The bull was dis­trust­ful, the fight took a slug­gish course.
 
Jouis­sance is a lens that al­lows us to see the world gone mon­strous. It is a crit­ical pas­sage, un­touch­able in its sac­red­ness, that tells the story of a world greater than the human world. The story of a place situ­ated some­where on the peri­pher­ies of cul­ture for many, un­known from dir­ect ex­per­i­ence, but vis­ited in the ima­gin­a­tion, where the human – an­imal bor­der be­comes slightly blurred. Human being be­comes noth­ing more than one of a great many spe­cies.

In an era brim­ming with im­ages, ideo­lo­gies, con­sump­tion, over­pro­duc­tion of thoughts, ac­tions, words – what do we con­sider a taboo? What does the di­men­sion look like that we are un­able to wade through? It often hap­pens that, in our thoughts, we move on the for­bid­den side, we teeter on the edge, stray­ing, slid­ing into the night.

How nice it would be to see the sun in pro­file.***

Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak
Jouissance– wystawa – kuratorka: Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak

* Georges Ba­taille, Story of the Eye, trans. Joachim Neu­groschel (San Fran­cisco: City Lights Books, 1987), 48.

** Jolanta Brach-Czaina, Szczeliny ist­ni­enia, Metafizyka mięsa (Warsaw: PIW, 1992), 226.

*** Jean Baudril­lard, Cool Memor­ies, trans. Chris Turner (Lon­don, New York: Verso, 1990), 203. 

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