Exhibition
Dreaming
3 Feb 2023 – 8 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 08:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 15:00
- Monday
- 08:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 08:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 08:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 08:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- ul. Wróblewskiego 10 A
- Gorlice
Lesser Poland Voivodeship - 38-300
- Poland
Muzeum – Dwory Karwacjanów i Gładyszów (Karwacjans Manor Art Gallery)
Photographic exhibition of Krzysztof Ligęza.
62 photographic prints (including large format and diptychs) taken between 2009-2022 plus animation (visualisation of a dream).
About
"Dreaming" is a poetic story about a married couple, whose life was affected by a tragic fate, heralded by a mysterious dream. A man falls into a coma, as a result of an accident, and then into a state of unresponsive wakefulness for several decades. A woman takes up the challenge of lonely care. The story raises questions about the meaning of suffering, sacrifice, faith, hope and love in the background of the inevitable perspective of the finiteness of human existence. The native scenery of homeland plays an important role in the series as the "centre of the world" of the characters. Sequential, symbolic images of
the landscape, including the beauty of nature's metamorphosis, accent the passage of time and emphasize the metaphysical perspective of the story.
Krzysztof Ligęza
Born in 1979. Lives and work in Southern Poland. In his work mainly focused on photography (documentary and fine-art). In the area of his interest, a special place is taken by the relation: man-nature-sacred, human-space interaction as well as the semantics of the image. Mostly focused on landscape, as the most open field, but does not avoid any other -scapes. Author and publisher of photobooks. Participant of solo & group exhibitions shown in Poland, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. Recipient of scholarships of the Polish Ministry of Culture & National Heritage (2022 and 2018). His
works were commended at e.g. International Photography Awards, USA; Prix de la Photo, France; Landscape Photographer of The Year, UK.