Kuba Stępień
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Artist statement
Kuba Stępień in an artist working between Berlin, Warsaw and their hometown - Bełchatów. Their practice is based on a widely defined process with a big accent on experimental subjective research, emotional critique, auto theory and non-binary perspecitves. They use video, performance, latex, their body fluids and other various media, tools and materials that can be viewed as irrational or frivolous. Often pursuing performative notions, they work in regards to and with their own body, a collective body, creating body-like creations, works, understanding multiplicities outside of own’s trauma and queer-world building. Working inbetween media, Kuba Stępień transfuses them with eachother aiming to explore notions of indeterminacies that absorb fictions and fantasies in relation to visual representation, as an alternative to dreams. Challenging the standards of normative communication and binary orders, they examine potentials of the non-normative and based on subjective characteristic language poeticises, treating their work as visual poems, codes or representations.
Artwork
- still trouble falling asleep, 2023. ink, glue, saliva, paper, nail polish on canvas
- doppi, 2024. latex, cotton hoodie, digital print, paper, tape, pins
- eyes all around their heads, 2024. ink, glue, saliva, paper, varnish, nail polish on canvas
- glossy gestures, 2024. ink, glue, saliva, paper, varnish, nail polish on canvas
- gargy twin, 2024. latex, plaster, fake leather
- All the stories I have ever told you were fiction, 2023. video