This article analyses Kacper Bartczak’s poetic project through the lens of the relationship between seeing, subjectivity, and the materiality of language. The poem is presented as a dynamic laboratory of critique, in which language does not merely reflect re-ality but actively co-shapes it. The processual nature of Bartczak’s poetic expression is emphasized, highlighting its ability to destabi-lise cognitive and cultural norms. Of particular importance here is the figure of the gaze – understood as a perceptual and affective practice that allows for the revelation and reconfiguration of hierarchies of meaning and power relations embedded in normative discourses. The analysis focuses on the role of the abject, the absence of a stable subject identity, and linguistic operations that blur the boundaries between the private and the political. The work proposes an inter-pretation of Bartczak’s poetry as a form of epistemological resistance to dominant language, opening up space for alternative ways of see-ing and speaking.

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