The 28-year-old Polish artist Agata Słowak told the writer and curator Alison Gingeras, who prepared the press materials for Słowak’s show at Fortnight Institute, that she “wanted to queer Jesus.” Her paintings are full of nails and stigmata—surreal, sadomasochistic images that depict male ruin and female power. Slowak wrote to me that she, a young woman in a Catholic country, occupies a “rupturing position." She added, “I find it difficult to function in communities in general.”
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