Mikołaj Sobczak

This vase brings into dialogue a folk narrative of the werewolf’s encounter with a lover and a clandestine photograph of a drag queen taken in New York in the late 1960s–early 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall. By pairing mythic intimacy with a document of emergent queer visibility, the work situates cross-cultural desire within both legend and lived history, underscoring how private encounters can mirror wider movements of transformation.

The ceramic vases refer to an originally Dutch technique that was brought to Poland by persecuted Anabaptists in the 16th century. Over time, this craft, introduced by migrants, became deeply embedded in Polish culture and is now perceived as distinctly Polish. The artist is also interested in this tension between cultural origins, migration, and the way traditions are reinterpreted as part of a national identity.