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After failure, the system continues

Dominik Zarówny’s latest drawings explore what remains when punishment gives way to calibration. Bodies are not rejected but adjusted — returned to circuits of performance where error becomes structural rather than exceptional.

In his Brunswick studio, Dominik Zarówny spreads out a stack of drawings made on paper 
— sheets designed to record, correct, and be replaced. The marks are precise but unsettled: bodies measured, segmented, folded back into line.

“I wasn’t interested in a precious surface,” he says, lifting one of the works from the pile
- “I wanted something already complicit — something that understands efficiency, correction, repair.”

The drawings form What Remains After Control, a series of 15 original studio sketches that resist resolution. Rather than progressing toward an image, they loop and recalibrate, operating through repetition instead of
narrative. Corrections remain visible; pressure accumulates.

“I was thinking about how failure is managed rather than allowed,” Zarówny explains - “Not failure as collapse, but as something absorbed and redistributed back into the system. Endurance becomes a requirement, not a choice.”

The series examines how control persists without spectacle. Repetition replaces force; calibration replaces punishment. Bodies are not expelled when they falter, but reinserted and adjusted. Line functions as both circuit and constraint, binding the body while quietly recording fatigue and deviation. Errors are not erased but folded into the structure, becoming evidence rather than exception.

What emerges is a system that survives through endless rehearsal — where escape is simulated but never reached, and where imperfection marks not failure, but persistence.