The “I would give you my heart” project is artistic research on the social situation of non-heteronormative people in Europe.Stereotypes of masculinity cultivated by culture we live in put on the role of man schemes that are not always possible to be realized by individuals or which are not accepted by minorities.

The situation becomes more complicated from the point of view of the LGBTQ community. In different countries, even in the European Community, the possibility of realizing oneself as an individualist is not the same. Many people travel and look for a new home - the place where people around accept their characteristics and help them grow in individual way, not in common standards.

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The aim of the project was to elicit reflection on the situation of LGBTQ people in the world and in Poland. After a wave of declarations by municipal and local authorities in Poland (place I am coming from)regarding the introduction of "LGBT free zones", a dialogue at the aesthetic and emotional level seems extremely necessary. The visual image through the collision of symbols, metaphors and auras creates new senses and stimulates sensitivity. In fact, it is it, sensitivity, that seems to me the key concept for the whole project.

 

 Studio photographs, photomontage and inspiration taken from classic portrait painting have became for me a metaphor of how rules restrict the freedom of life and being in the present. The unreal situation and the sense of the problem being out of date expressed in artistic form dulls vigilance. The situation of social minorities often changes or shakes;  if their rights are not clearly defined, the everyday life of people who do not identify themselves with the dominant tendencies depends on different topics such as political situation, social moods, international and local pressures and norms crystallized in a given place. Condemned to the grace or disgrace of most, these people fight for dignity, joy and respect with the hope of achieving recognition for their rights.

 

Models who take  part in my project come from different countries. They are from Poland, from Czech Republic, from Algeria and from  Italy. Thanks to travelling to different countries I met, talked to and photographed people who identify themselves as non-binary or not heteronormative.