



What is a thing?
What makes something what it is?
Does an object only become itself once we name it? Is its sense and meaning determined by its appearance, function, or material? And if we manage to define why something is what it is, at what point does it cease to be that thing? Does a table stop being a table if we cut off its legs? Does a horse remain a horse if no one has seen it? The boundaries of identity–both of things and of people–have long occupied philosophers, writers, and artists. Stanisław Lem revisited these questions in his short story "Are you there, Mr. Jones?", the themes of which Andrzej Wajda adapted for the screen in the film “Roly Poly”. The works presented in this exhibition evoke similar questions.
The forms appear familiar yet ambiguous; they undergo transformations, distortions, and shifts, exploring the limits of their own identities.