Andrzej Kramarz

In Rapture. A Dream of a Lover You Never Knew, Andrzej Kramarz turns the pornographic image away from spectacle and towards suggestion. Made by photographing, in real time, videos from porn websites and OnlyFans, the series does not focus on explicit action. Instead, Kramarz looks beside it, around it and through it: cropping fragments, blurring details and isolating close-ups until bodies become painterly, uncertain and charged with longing.

The work extends Kramarz’s long-standing engagement with found and vernacular images, but moves decisively into the digital realm. Here, online erotic material becomes a contemporary ready-made: already framed, already mediated, yet open to reworking. By building images upon images, Kramarz shifts their context from consumption to contemplation.

For The Queer Museum, Rapture speaks to the complexity of queer desire in a world saturated by screens. It recognises pornography as part of our shared visual culture, while resisting its usual economies of exposure, speed and certainty. What emerges is not literalness, but atmosphere: veiled desire, imagined intimacy and the dream of a lover who remains unknowable.

In these works, erotic imagery is slowed down, softened and made strange. Desire becomes less a possession than a projection; less a body fully seen than a flicker, a trace, a possibility beyond the frame.