Kuba Stępień
fot. Emma Szumlas
Kuba Stępień (b. 1997, she/they) is 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 emotional research, emotional critique, auto theory and non-binary trans 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 each other 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.
