A new art exhibition, Głosy / Voices, is set to open in the Crypt Gallery at Norwich School this week. Running from the 18th to the 26th August, Głosy / Voices combines the words and images of a 1950s poet and 1980s photographer to create a coherent exhibition of art created over two generations. 

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The art exhibition Głosy / Voices is a combination of words and images. The former were written by a poet born in the 1950s, while the pictures are the work of a photographer from the 1980s generation. The juxtaposition of the images and words of the two artists constitute a coherent whole… an artwork constructed over two generations. The exhibition was inspired by Jan Polkowski’s volume of poetry Głosy / Voices, which the poet invited Maria Gąsiecka to adorn with her photos.

Jan Polkowski’s cycle of poems entitled Voices has no counterpart in Polish literature, or world literature, for that matter. It is no haphazard collection of poems, but a coherent and thematically homogenous cycle of eighteen verses dedicated to the victims of the massacre on the Baltic Coast in 1970.

Maria Gąsiecka’s black and white photographs of the deserted Gdańsk Shipyard, in combination with Jan Polkowski’s moving poems, combine to evoke an atmosphere of the passing moment, and history. The exhibition is intended to provoke reflection on the meaning of existence and passing away. Polkowski’s stirring poems permit us to remember those who passed away too early and unexpectedly, recalling to our eyes recent events that still remain a timeless image of the world around us.

The Głosy / Voices exhibition opens in the Crypt Gallery on the 18th of August, with the official opening night from 6pm on August 19th. For more information visit www.eastexhibition.co.uk