Dorota NIEZNALSKA (b. 1973), Untitled, 1999

color photography, dibond, plexiglass; 59.5 x 89.5 cm;
On the back printed author's sticker with the artist's handwritten signature: Dorota Nieznalska / untitled, 1999 / edition: 1AP / 3 + 2AP / D. Nieznalska;
author's print, edition: 3 + 2 AP.

EXHIBITED:
- Sleepless in Warsaw, Lokal_30 Gallery at A.I.R. Gallery, New York 6.08 - 4.09.2022.
- Take My Eyes, Lokal_30 Gallery, Warsaw, 2022.

Dorota Niezaleska's series of photographs realized in 1991 brings to the forefront the relationship of domination and subordination, power and submission between perpetrator and victim. According to the artist, her intention was to show the dependence of the pregnant female on the man, his primacy and control over the "inferior being" as a metaphor for the status of patriarchy in private, social and political relations. The author's commentary on the situation depicted is a muzzle for male genitalia suspended from a leather strap, for example, during the exhibition Take My Eyes realized at Warsaw's Lokal_30 gallery and dealing with the issue of gender violence. Photographs from this series are in the collections of the Wyspa Institute of Art and the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk and the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok, among others.