Katya Libkind. „To despair – To look”

Katya Libkind. „To despair – To look”
13.03.2026 – 24.05.2026
Curator: Ewa Chacianowska

„To despair – To look”, an individual exhibition by Ukrainian artist Katya Libkind, highlights the central role of the body, sensuality, the intimacy of trauma, and memory in her artistic practice, understood as essential to the process of working through bodily and psychological wounds.

The narratives constructed within the exhibition do not form a linear story. Instead, they unfold as dreamlike yet powerful images of the contemporary moment. Drawing on memory, Libkind creates worlds suspended between dream and reality. Her sensory scenographies are filled with uncanny objects and visual metaphors, in which everything returns to the body, to the wound, and to the need for genuine sensation and authentic experience in the face of the ongoing war in Ukraine.

This is Katya Libkind’s first solo exhibition in Poland. However, audiences of the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok have previously encountered her work in the group exhibitions “Observe This Moment – How It Convulses” (2024) and “Common Landscape / Greeting a Stranger” (2025).