Kurator: Wojciech Gilewicz
Instagram: @wycisza
We invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Wy cisza” – a vernissage combined with a performance.
Wy cisza is an artistic project exploring silence as a state of disturbance, withdrawal, and defense. It does not signify harmony or relief, but rather a response to visual, social, and political overload, and an attempt to protect creative autonomy in conditions of economic and institutional uncertainty. Here, silence appears as a decision and a strategy of action.
The project features artists Dymitr Hołówko, Bartosz Kokosiński, and Adam Radoliński, and is curated by the artist Wojciech Gilewicz. Their practices are united by a focus on materiality, process, and the tension between legibility and noise, memory and forgetting. The works operate through reduction, the weight of matter, traces of action, and limitation of expression. Silence becomes an attitude toward the world: covering, suppressing, blurring, fragmentation, understatement, and the reuse of existing forms.
An essential element of the project are processes of transformation and performativity, revealing the ambivalence of silence — as a gesture that is both protective and oppressive, connected with fear, shame, self-censorship, and the pressure of visibility. Silence does not function here as absence, but as a field of tension and concentration of meaning.
The project develops as an open situation, expanded through performative actions, multisensory experiences, and workshops. It challenges the dominance of vision and normative models of participation in art, proposing a different rhythm of contact with the work — based on pause, attentiveness, and physical presence.
The exhibition, presented at the Pracownia Portretu gallery in Łódź, treats silence as a form of resistance against the overproduction of images and the compulsion of constant exposure. It is a project about the protection of subjectivity and creative freedom.
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♿ Accessibility
The performance presented during the opening (30.01) will be interpreted into Polish Sign Language (PJM).
🇪🇺 The project is realized with the support of the National Recovery Plan for Culture and the European Union – NextGenerationEU.