Abstract
Focusing on Krzysztof Jung’s explicitly homoerotic 1970s drawings and placing them in the wider context of the artist’s practice, this article investigates the possibilities of re-inscribing narratives of desire into the grim landscape of queer histories in socialist Poland, still palpable today. It argues that as stories of queer desire are almost exclusively linked with shame, trauma, and suffering, they contribute to victimisation of queer people in Poland and only grant them visibility within the sphere of abjection. Jung’s works are rare examples of ephemeral yet liberating expressions of queerness defying the oppressive atmosphere of the socialist regime, as well as identity politics. Developing a conceptualisation of desiring touch as research method, this article considers how we may write about sex, love, and queer desire viscerally rather than in abstract, sublimated forms – and how such an exercise can be a strategy of reclaiming the sphere of abjection with joys of fucking.
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