Stasieczek, Patryk

Vancouver, BC

Patryk Stasieczek's artistic practice delves into the expansive realms of photographic representation, emphasizing the agency inherent in recording observation, to navigate an embodied intersection between image, apparatus, and queerness. 

Central to their work is a hybridization model that melds traditional and emergent material practices, rooted in an understanding of representation, refusal, colur, and photographic abstraction. They are fascinated by the transformative nature of images, and work through intervention to actively question ideas of representation within a process of experimentation.

Through their research, they articulate exploratory production methods that highlight photography's capacity to convey an embodied, action-oriented ontology. Images, in their malleability, serve as paradoxical boundaries that reflect and contextualize various aspects of the human psyche.

As image technologies evolve, the queerness inherent in the photographic remains a dynamic force, manifesting in gestures that challenge conventional paradigms. As an artist and educator, they advocate for an expansion of image-making conditions that offer relational insights into lived experiences as they interrogate the structures employed in their representation.