“Seas, Night Skies, and Deserts is an exhibition inspired by the allure of the horizon. Bringing together the work of four artists working across different media, this show invites questions about boundaries. Where do these divisions begin? What role does language play in dividing the world and naming the parts? Do the contoured edges that make up our surroundings mirror those within our patterns of thought? Is it possible to decouple the act of delineating difference from the formation of a binary proposition?

The works in this exhibition invite you to linger with the uncertainty that lurks within the most obvious distinctions: between land and sky, solid and liquid, light and metal, presence and absence.

Karolina Bielawska’s characteristic style centers around a monochromatic palette complemented by carefully selected colors. Her forms offer ambiguous narrative modes: fractal lines and marks, accompanied by biomorphic and asymmetric shapes reminiscing mysterious silhouettes.

Murmuration, that is, the act of formation of large flocks of birds, through performing rapid synchronic movements during flight that resembles dance, has no unequivocal cause. Perhaps the individuals join into herds to exchange information about feeding sites and to build a sense of security, as organized whirling confuses and distracts potential enemies. However, another hypothesis is charming – the one that suggests that the gathering and communal acrobatics foster an increased generation of heat and the warming up of birds during cold seasons. That is when murmuration takes place most often. Birds move along in spectacular fashion, as a morphing mass without collision, although they have no leader among them. The applicable rules here are those of mutual imitation and a feeling of community. No one really knows how they are able to achieve this.”

Text excerpt, Wschód Gallery, 2024