Opening, June 12, 2025, 6 pm
Exhibition, June 13 – August 14, 2025
Under the title edging—bodies without orgasms, Michał Leszuk curates a group exhibition at Kunstraum Lakeside that expands the annual theme Glitch with artistic positions that open the world to a queer language and bring it to the edge of the hegemonic dominance of majority society. Three interconnected motifs form his departure point: first, the principle of multiplicity, as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari described the dynamics of entanglements and assemblages, which interact in complex, non-linear ways and lead to unpredictable outcomes; the instability of the category “body,” whose conventional representation and fixed concept are put up for discussion by Legacy Russell as a glitch or malfunction; and last but not least, moments of desire and lust that correspond to Roland Barthes’ idea of pornographic messages. “There is a certain lure to search for what is unknown, what is hybrid and ambiguous, and to stir up uncertain desire-zones,” says Leszuk about the concept of the exhibition. It is “the journey of a wild celebration that can determine neither the beginning nor reach the end. Unlike a structure, which is established by the signifying points and positions (beginning-end), queering always remains unfinished, it takes a form of a horny rhizome, mapping and traversing limitless multiplicities, simultaneously rewarding it with pleasure, excitement, and affirmation.”
Michał Leszuk (b. 1993 in Poland) lives and works in Vienna.
@michal_leszuk
