Bartek
Arobal
Kociemba
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2022
In conversation with Derek Jarman’s Blue, Dawning is a contemplation of impermamence and loss of a generation deprived of means of survival granted by the blue pill. The piece breaths with light, slowly lighting up, exposing its shapes and shadows, to later patiently dimm down and return to it’s flat surface.
Presented at the Leto Gallery in Warsaw Poland in 2022.
Part of a private collection.
70x100cm, color pencil on paper cutouts + lightbox
MENTAL BODY 2019
The cut-out drawing of his own naked body exhibited in a lightbox was made by Arobal for an exhibition called Creative Sick States; AIDS, Cancer, HIV, organised in Municipal Gallery Arsenal, a gallery in Poznań, Poland. This self-portrait is a gesture aimed at reclaiming the artist’s own carnality against social misconceptions of what it means to be seropositive.
70x100cm, color pencil on paper cutouts + lightbox
BITA GŁOWA / BEATEN HEAD 2010
Drawing based on a selfie afyter being attacked and beaten on the streets of Warsaw by homophobic hooligans.
The infected blood caused seemingly more fear then the attack itself.
42x60cm, color pencil on paper
BLEBAZGROLY.BLOG.PL 2007-2009
A series of drawings from an online visual diary illustrating daily experiences and interactions around the time of becoming HIV positive.
Discussed indepth with Szymon Adamczak for Dwutygognik magazine.