Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The text discusses the work of the Polish artist Adam Łucki in the context of the “rural turn” in queer studies and visual arts. Referring to the notion of “metronormativity” and the American discourse of the “anti-idyll,” I examine how these concepts can be applied to discuss the Polish rural queer experience and cultural constructions of the Polish countryside. In my interpretation of Łucki’s work, I argue that visual practices engaged in queering the countryside work against existing stereotypical perceptions of the rural space as backward and hostile. I also show how, in Łucki’s artistic practice, the countryside as a space and the rural as a temporal construct become symbolically decolonised through a performative queer appropriation.
DOI: 10.31261/errgo.16324
Author: Karolina Kolenda
Institution: Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Language: English
Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405890992