Date & Time: Friday, December 12, 2025 15:00-16:00 (Reception opens at 14:45)
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / EVENT SPACE (1F / next to the museum shop)
Admission: Free (a TABF admission ticket valid on the day of the event is required)
Language: Japanese, English [Interpreter: Hiroko Shiratori]
Speakers: Studio Prokopiou (artists) × Łukasz Rusznica (Sun Archive) × Agnieszka Olszewska (Head of Exhibitions in Museum of Photography in Krakow)
Enter a luminous, unruly feast where mythology, queerness, and camp aesthetics collide: Łukasz Rusznica, a curator who runs Sun Archive in Poland, and dr. Agnieszka Olszewska, Head of Exhibitions in Museum of Photography in Krakow, guide you through Studio Prokopiou’s Wet Paint, an exuberant book that explodes Greek heritage and gender with electric color and irreverent performance. Here, bodies become living myths, painted, staged, and blurred between homage and heresy. With staging as ritual and humor as weapon, these images refuse the closure of dry history, celebrating instead the “wetness” of unstable, leaking identities. Queer theory pulses throughout: shame and pride entwined, binaries dissolved.
Wet Paint is both an archive and an ephemeral rebellion, a protest against the rigid, a playground for the excessive. In this session, Rusznica reveals how curation can itself be a queer act. Join us to wrestle with beauty, abjection, and the struggle for bodies to write new stories on ancient skins.
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Studio Prokopiou
Studio Prokopiou is a London-based fine art photography duo formed in 2014 by Phillip Prokopiou and Panos Poimenidis, both of Greek heritage. Their work intricately weaves queer identity, mythology, art history, and popular culture, staging portraits that investigate self-invention and the relationship between performance, fantasy, and reality. Internationally exhibited and featured in Vogue Italia and the British Journal of Photography’s “Ones to Watch,” their debut monograph Wet Paint, published by Sun Archive, won the Grand Prize for Photographic Publication of the Year 2025 at Łódź Fotofestiwal and 1st prize in Art and Photography 2024 by the Polish Association of Book Publishers.
Web: https://studioprokopiou.com/
Łukasz Rusznica
Łukasz Rusznica is a photographer and curator dedicated to the photographic book. His latest work, All Empires Will Fall, was shortlisted for the 2025 Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards and named Book of the Month by Photo London. He won the 2019 Photographic Publication of the Year and the Krzysiek Makowski Award for Subterranean River. His How to Look Natural in Photos was a 2021 Rencontres d'Arles finalist and won the 2022 Makowski Award. Rusznica participated in the European Eyes on Japan project and directs the boutique publisher Sun Archive in Wrocław, Poland while exhibiting internationally.
Web: https://sunarchivebooks.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukaszrusznica/?hl=en
Agnieszka Olszewska
Agnieszka Olszewska is a culture manager, academic, producer, and curator specialising in photography. She studied Photography at the Łódź Film School, German studies at Jagiellonian University, and Culture Management at the Warsaw School of Economics, holding a PhD in humanities. From 2009 to 2011, she managed a gallery and later directed Cracow Photomonth (2013–2019). She chaired the Foundation for Visual Arts (2015–2018) and curated residencies at the POLIN Museum (2016–2017). Since 2018, she has been head of the Exhibitions Department at the Museum of Photography in Cracow.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keinedelikatessen/