[2026] Patryk Stasieczek
Curatorial Project

for that gob casts the image
solo show by Patryk Stasieczek
curated by Alejandro A. Barbosa

Included in Capture Photography Festival's 2026 Selected Exhibitions Program

Apr 17 – May 24, 2026
Wil Aballe
Vancouver, BC

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6 – 8 pm


Patryk Stasieczek's project configures the artist's body as a physical photographic apparatus, one that renders their surroundings—professional and personal—onto hundreds of silver gelatin fibre-based paper negatives.

Utilizing their lips, tongue, airways and fluids, Stasieczek holds the referent, that which is depicted, literally in their skull—legible, once developed, mostly as abstraction. The contents of their mouth contaminate the chemistry of the black & white process, pushing against the prescribed becoming of silver halides into metallic silver, rehashing analog photography as a form of alchemy. These operations probe the aesthetic threshold between the interior and exterior of the body as a minor camera obscura which relays otherwise fleeting images that, incessantly, the mouth produces.

In this exhibition, Stasieczek proposes a solution beyond the figurative image to the unresolved ethics of queer agency in photography. The queer body is here brought into question as its openings are disciplined into an image-capable mechanism—not only is the queer body accounted for in front and behind the camera, but also as the promise of an agential photographic device.