SELF PORTRAIT WITH STARS

2015/2015, color photograph, dimensions: 75 cm x 105 cm

TSUKIMI, Ewa Opałka Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 13.06–31.07.2025

Kuba Falk‘s photograph Self-portrait with stars was taken during one of the artist’s trips to South America. A nighttime journey through the Brazilian landscape reveals a star-filled sky and the fusion of the human figure with nature in a cosmic context. The long exposure and use of simple tools — such as light from a cell phone to illuminate the silhouette — create an effect of uncanniness and ethereality in the captured body. “I am not queer, I am disembodied” — the famous line from William Bur- roughs’s novel Queer takes on new meaning in Falk’s photograph.

Excerpt from the curatorial text by Ewa Opałka

TSUKIMI exhibition opening, Ewa Opałka Gallery, Warsaw, Photos by Adam Gut,