Karol Radziszewski
Fag Fighters: Prologue
Fag Fighters: Prologue begins Karol Radziszewski’s series of films about
a fictional gay fighting squad. In it, the artist records his grandmother in
the process of weaving a pink balaclava for him. Radziszewski challenges
stereotypical views about homosexuals, showing them as aggressive,
violent people. Part of the work is a colour photograph showing the artist
sitting in a pink balaclava next to his grandmother.
Karol Radziszewski
(b. 1977) a visual artist, the author of films, photographs, paintings, installations and interdisciplinary projects. He graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2004. Winner of the Samsung Art Master competition and the Polityka Passport award. An LGBT activist, he is the publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine and founder of the Queer Archives Institute, an organisation whose goal is to collect, study and share queer archives, especially those from or related to Central and Eastern Europe.