BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice

The exhibition The Vicinity of Constellation aims at presenting the work of international artists who have demonstrated a particular interest — either occasional or recurrent — in the theme of constellation.

Encompassing di erent artistic media, such as sculpture, painting, photography or even installation and video, this thematic exhibition enables us to discover how thinking of stellar objects can develop acreative and intellectual richness through artistic expression as wide as the object it represents. It is also important to note that the works chosen for this exhibition arenot exclusively limited to the issue of the cosmos. Reaching far beyond amere astronomical understanding, thanks to their presence the works invite the viewer to face the emergence of di erent kinds of relations, simultaneously physiognomic, mental, anecdotal, purely visual — spreading in the space, on the wall, on the ground, or on the body surface — or highlighting the close relationship between the internal and external forces of the same object.

Within the rightly rhizomatic structure of the exhibition — where each artist seems to express through his own aesthetical research the will to answer the question of the presence of the human being in the world — art may raise questions about what French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas claimed — that art appears to humanity as the expression of the uncertainty of its continuation. The confrontation between the artist and the topic of constellations forces us to think about our own relation with time and space.

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