Daniel Lismore: I Am an Art Piece
Pop Culture Gallery, Poznań

An exhibition built around the radical presence of Daniel Lismore – artist, designer, performer and living sculpture. Lismore constructs his own body as a monumental collage: a vertical landscape composed of memories, politics, craftsmanship, found objects, haute couture, subculture and identity. His practice turns the self into an artwork, a fluid archive of everything he has ever worn, cherished, confronted or reclaimed.

The exhibition presents Lismore simultaneously as maker and material. It explores the body as vessel, stage and manifesto. Each ensemble is a constellation of histories and textures: textiles carrying traces of travel, metal armour shaped by queer resilience, fragments of pop culture and ceremonial codes, couture transformed into a shield for visibility. His presence is intimate and overwhelming at once, insisting that identity is not hidden within but built, layered and performed.

Daniel Lismore: I Am an Art Piece is a declaration of agency. A statement about crafting one’s own narrative through form. About dressing not for disguise, but for articulation. In Poznań, Lismore’s towering figures become reflective surfaces, prompting viewers to examine their own choices of appearance, their symbols, their armour, their freedom.

The exhibition positions Lismore within global conversations on fashion, performance art and queer visibility, while emphasising his singular ability to merge theatrical scale with personal truth. His works do not stand as passive objects, but as charged presences.

This is an encounter with identity as sculpture. With clothing as a manifesto. With the human body as a living museum. With the possibility that being an artwork is not an attitude, but a lifelong practice.