Affective Realities and Conceptual Contradictions of Patricia Piccinini’s Art: Ecofeminist and Disability Studies Perspectives

The recent exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s art called That’s Us (Toruń, CSW) largely represents the Australian artist’s visions and fascinations known from earlier exhibitions. Questioning erasing borders between species, affective realities are bound to concepts care, empathy fragility, which refigure what is human non-human relations them by expanding notion mothering fostering include interspecies relations. Beginning with a discussion uncanny, abjection monstrosity, this article aims examine complicated implications interpreting within conceptual framework ecofeminism, as well in context disability aesthetics. In her explorations different alternative corporealities, Piccinini, among many other things, asks questions about ideologies normativity able-bodiedness, suggesting possibility going beyond them.