HUBERT KURKIEWICZ
photos by Justyna Gryglewicz
You open your eyes, awakening from a shallow sleep. Catching your first breath, you try to recall its escaping
contents. Some fragments you remember immediately, others blur together, forming a blurry cluster of memories.
You connect seemingly incongruous threads, hoping to fill in the gaps in the story. You don't know whether to
try to fall asleep again, or rather quickly write down what's left in your head. You stare at the ceiling in the
naive belief that this passivity will lead to any satisfactory solution.
Suddenly reality dematerializes. You rub your eyes, there you are again. You still don't remember what happened
before, but what you see seems familiar.
In the exhibition “you ask if it's all over” the state of suspension - between dream and waking, hope and
sentiment, transience and constancy - is important. It is like a conversation at two poles, where the answer, as
never, is in the middle. This dialogue is expressed in the works of five female artists, finalists of the Grey
House Foundation Competition. Collected fragments of reality - both physical and virtual - come together to form
narrative micro-collages. In this puzzle, we have a choice - from which side to start building it for ourselves.
There is no single solution, each carries different interpretations. What is certain is that one needs the whole
picture to understand the story.
Artists: Weronika Guenther, Agata Lankamer, Ant Lakomsk, Alicja Pakosz and Magdalena Tryba
Curatorial persons: Patrycja Ciastko and Hubert Kurkiewicz
