Love is not always gentle and tender. Sometimes, it turns into madness, obsession, a ritual that consumes identity. “Bad Romance” is a story of a relationship that takes the form of addiction – hypnotic, destructive, inevitable.

This work was inspired by Lady Gaga and her iconic song “Bad Romance”, where passion is not a fairy-tale harmony but a dark game of dominance, desire, and destruction. The wig, so characteristic of her image, becomes something more – a symbol of a mask, an illusion behind which emptiness hides. The face disappears, leaving only the body – exposed, subjected to the gaze, yet stripped of individuality, as if the feeling had taken away what was most essential.
Black and white enhance the drama of this narrative – emotions, like light and shadow, balance between extremes. It is the tension between passion and losing control, between longing and dissolving oneself in another.

“Bad Romance” is a vision of fascination that defies convention. It is a story of desire that blinds, bonds that consume, and an identity that gradually fades in this fire.

Kamila J Gruss
02.02.2025 Słupsk