GENETICS OF MEMORY

National Museum in Lublin
Zamkowa 9, 20-117 Lublin, Poland
19 July – 1 December 2024

Xawery Wolski’s exhibition is a five-act poem, consisting of designated spaces on the Lublin castle hill – the temporary exhibition hall and creative interventions in the cultural landscape: the courtyard, the lapidarium, the Holy Trinity Chapel and the medieval castle keep. The aim is to confront the artist’s works with places of historical character, that would highlight the mutual relations between the work and the place of its presentation and would encourage the discovery of new meanings, reinterpretations and dialogues between Xawery Wolski’s sculpture and the space of the National Museum in Lublin. The lyrical structure of the exhibition is underlined by choruses – repetitions of selected motifs from the artist’s work, which are characterised by the usage of symbolism, minimalism, asceticism of form and seriality, allowing his works to be grouped into specific constellations and themes. Thus, at the exhibition one will find traces of Wolski’s artistic path – imprinted, sketched, woven and forged in diverse materials that bring new textures, stories and emotions. In a place touched by history, Wolski’s works combine the past with the future, becoming a magical antidote in the area of memory, trauma and reminiscences.