LARYS LUBOWICKI
laryslubowicki.pl@gmail.com
laryslubowicki.pl 888889596
Bio:
Larys Lubowicki (1991), Poland – between the Bug and Biebrza rivers.
His artistic and academic practice revolves around corporeality, death, and the mythology of the animal world, with a particular focus on human cognitive errors that shape our perception of material reality. Drawing on both scientific and artistic perspectives, his work navigates the fragile boundaries between knowledge, illusion, and the hidden dimensions of life.
Statement:
We move through life wrapped in the soft fabric of cultural conventionspatterns that comfort us, yet bind us. To question them too deeply is to risk unraveling the threads that hold our world together. Meanwhile, the raw truths of existence - killing, dying, sufferingare carefully hidden from our sight, pushed into distant spaces: the slaughterhouse, the laboratory, the nursing home. In this concealment, we find a fragile peace. For me, art is the place where these veils can be lifted - not to show reality as it is, but to reveal how tightly we cling to the illusions that protect us from it.
Education:
2020- Department of Psychology and Philosophy, Medical University of Białystok – PhD candidate 2018-2020 Faculty of Photography, University of the Arts Poznań – Master of Arts 2012-2017 Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Białystok – Doctor of Dental Surgery
Exhibitions: 2022 „Future of plants and humans” - „Cichorium” / Orto Botanico, Rzym 2022 „What Next?” / UAM, Poznań 2022 „Corpus Hominis” (solo) / PF Galeria Fotografii, CK Zamek, Poznań
2021 „Dotyku!” / Scena Otwarta UAP, Poznań
2021 „Regnum Animale” (solo) / łąka i las w Pietrzykowie-Gołąbkach, Poznań 2021 „Capture the Future(s): our bio-tech planet”/ Plant Biology Europe Congress 2019 „Ryzosfera” / UAM, Poznań
2019 „Zoom In” / Pireus, Poznań
2019 „Mesh” / Student Depot Polonez, Poznań
2017 „Corpus Hominis” / Festiwal Nauki i Sztuki, Białystok
2016 „Corpus Hominis” (solo) / Pałac Branickich, Białystok
Cichorium intybus, 2022
installation / photo-object
Installation in the greenhouse of the Sapienza Botanical Garden, created for the exhibition “Our Bio-Tech Planet: Future of Plants and Humans.”
Constructed from medical lightboxes and X-ray images of common chicory (Cichorium intybus), collected in the borderland zone of Poland.
Cichorium intybus 7m x 4m x 1,6m, 2022 exhibition view
Cichorium intybus 7m x 4m x 1,6m, 2022 exhibition view
Cichorium intybus #0207
40cm x 115cm, 2022
Cichorium intybus #0187
45cm x 96cm, 2022
Cichorium intybus #0208
40cm x 116cm, 2022
Regnum Animale, 2021
spatial performance, photographic series
A photographic series created in research institutes, breeding facilities, and laboratories focused on animals.
The series was presented during an outdoor exhibition to the local fauna inhabiting the forests of Podlasie, as well as to the teaching staff of UAP, during the diploma defense.
Regnum vitae #3, 2020
253cm x 156cm, exhibition view
Regnum iuventutis #1, 2020
253cm x 156cm, exhibition view
Urbes #4, 2020
74cm x 90cm, exhibition view
untitled, 2020 movie, exhibition view
Investigation, 2019
Documentation of the traces left by a romantic relationship. Letters, photographs, recordings, and artifacts come together as fragments of intimacy and memory, revealing the delicate and ephemeral nature of human connection. art object
592 279 words, 229 Mondays, 71 letters, 21 894 photographs 33cm x 22cm x 18cm,
object, 2019
Projective test, 2019
photographic object, photograph
A pigeon, deceased as a result of colliding with the glass wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków.
Projective test / Rorschach test
124cm x 94cm x 12cm, object, 2019
Dream of wildlife, 2018
series of photographs
A photographic series created in natural history museums and zoological gardens, depicting dioramas or terrariums simulating fragments of natural habitats.
Dream of wildlife #2 100cm x 150cm, 2018
Dream of wildlife #1 100cm x 150cm, 2018
Dream of wildlife #9 100cm x 150cm, 2018
Autopsia, 2017-now
conceptual project / photographic series
An artistic practice involving the preservation, preparation, cremation, and photographing of animals after their natural death.
Gallus gallus et Gallus gallus (pulveres), Ashes of domestic chickens
32cm x 48cm, 2017
Vulpes vulpes, Red fox (roadkill) 40cm x 60cm, 2017
Gallus gallus, Domestic chicken (skinless)
42cm x 28cm, 2017
Gallus gallus #1
120cm x 90cm, 2018
Gallus gallus #2
120cm x 90cm, 2018
Gallus gallus #3
120cm x 90cm, 2018
Felis catus 30cm x 45cm, 2017
Domestic cat (roadkill)
Gallus gallus
42cm x 28cm, 2017
Domestic chicken (victim of a marten hunt)
Corpus Hominis, 2016
photographic series
Human tissues – in health or disease. Photographs made using diagnostic equipment in medical research centers.
140cm x 140cm, 2016
Electrophoresis of heart proteins labeled with a luminescent marker.
140cm x 140cm, 2016
Chest during cardiac cell ablation, targeting ectopic contractions. X-ray image.
KLab#3/rr:260
KLab#1/rr:230
KGen#3/rr:40
140cm x 140cm, 2016 DNA microarray.
Comparison of individual gene activity in liver cancer cells and metastases.
140cm x 140cm, 2016 Renal glomerulus. Antibodies labeled with fluorescein, specific to autoantibodies.
KImf#1/rr:0,8
140cm x 140cm, 2016
Blood cells from a patient with granulocytic leukemia.
Scanning electron microscope image.
140cm x 140cm, 2016
Lymphoblastic lymphoma, resected from the corpus callosum. Cytology, light microscope image.
KSkn#4/rr:0,28
KHst#1/rr:18
Cropus Hominis, 2022
Galeria Fotografii pf, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland exhibition view
Cropus Hominis, 2022
Galeria Fotografii pf, CK Zamek, Poznań, Poland exhibition view
