Any activity can be called a perversion. It’s all about breaking taboos: individual, cultural, social. If a person decides that something is forbidden and then derives pleasure from breaking that ban, his or her behaviour can be regarded as perverse. Eating chocolate, for instance, while being on a diet, or making others indulge one’s whims, when – according to one’s own criteria – it is unbecoming.

Pain is a relative concept.

It’s not a warning against pain itself, but rather against the ease of interpreting other people’s actions through the prism of one’s own fears.

When working on the photographs for the project, I used the language of documentary, while in video materials and film, I let narration come to the fore.However, despite using such objectivizing techniques, the exhibition is not so much a story about my protagonists as – perhaps first and foremost – about myself, and about the way in which the perception of another person, a sense of aesthetics and a unique atmosphere all have an effect on the viewers’ response. The people in my photos are simple characters and not some operatic figures or overly dramatic actors from a cheap pornographic movie. They are ordinary people wearing latex masks and outfits, tied to a radiator – the same that we all have at our homes. I think the strength of this photography lies in this combination of the banality of a situation, space, the ordinariness of a body and the sheen of latex.

To go to that level, where you stop turning a fetishist into a fetish, and start seeing a human being.

That is my goal.

Project carried out in Poland, between 2012 and 2017.