QUARTER

Scarecrows, a reinterpretation of Henri Matisse’s La Danse, experimental landscapes, and a psychodrama about intergenerational inheritance — the debuting artists present diverse themes, brought together by a spirit of experimentation, authentic expression, and the tactile nature of the creative process.

QUARTER / KWADRA is a presentation of four distinct artistic voices — Kacper Bijoś, Monika Jóźwicka, Adam Rudolf Karpiński, and Gabriela Woźniak — students of the Łódź Film School for whom experimentation, authenticity of expression, and the physicality of the creative process are of key importance.

Their works exist at the intersection of artistic practice, documentary observation, and staged construction. Their engagement with the medium — whether through moving image, object, or space — is based on developing original, self-devised methods. The materiality of the process is essential: hand-built sets, direct interaction with space and tools, and a deliberate embrace of temporariness.

These are experimental practices rooted in performative action and personal reflection. The artists do not seek to reproduce reality, but rather to build their own visual codes from it — in search of answers to questions that genuinely move them.

The exhibition title — QUARTER / KWADRA — refers to one of the phases of the moon, in which only half of its face is visible. It marks a moment of transition that becomes a metaphor for the creative process: suspended between light and shadow, when the shape is only beginning to emerge and has yet to fully reveal itself.