angry

This painting was an outlet for me, something I could channel all my anger into after the summer of 2020. My polish queerness at the centre of my work once again. That summer was particularly anger inducing because of presidential elections and prosecution of a queer activist, Margot.
The arrest of Margot sparked protests in Warsaw and around the country. Unsurprisingly, the protesters were met with heavy retaliation from the police. They police keep to their truth and say it was the protesters who were aggressive. But people got brutalized for sitting on the street and waiving rainbow flags.
Our current president campaigned using the queer identity and community as a tool. We were told we’re not people, but an ideology that the spread of needs to be stopped.
Dear Mr President, I am in fact a person, LGBT+ is me.

Then I made stickers and put them around Rotterdam. They say “zła,” which means angry in Polish. They were a means to let my anger out into the world, in a form of a spiky and bright image.