Buczkowski Unstitched is an exhibition project that realises Leopold Buczkowski’s dream of a polyphony of literature. Like his work, the exhibition will unfold on many planes at once: in image, sculpture, music and word. It is a project of living art that comes into being 37 years after the author’s death — perhaps only now are we able to understand and feel our way into his vision of a world shattered into myriads.
A journey through the exhibition is equivalent to getting lost in Buczkowski himself. Moving through the many temporalities hidden within it. It is a passage through a heterogeneous stream of events and feelings that organise the motifs recurring in his prose.
Entering the exhibition, we enter into happening: into the desire and the inability to go further, into fragmentation and scattering, into the feverish documentary impulse of the moment in which everything is dialogue, intertwining into many threads. These, in turn, tangle with one another in a conversation in which the parties shout over each other, sometimes speaking simultaneously, sometimes listening to one another, laughing or crying, only to break off and part in communion or in a sense of incompleteness.
The project was created in collaboration with Galeria Przeciąg, the University of Warsaw and the Bielany Cultural Centre.
The exhibition is the result of the seminar Project: Buczkowski, conducted by Prof. Agnieszka Karpowicz and Dr Piotr Sadzik at the University of Warsaw within the framework of the Teaching Excellence Fund.