The project focuses on subtle signals connected to childhood experiences. Events from our earliest years gradually sink into the subconscious. Although they disappear within the sedimentation of memory, they remain active – continuously shaping our bodies and the way we experience the world.

The installation is interactive in nature. Built from fragile and constantly shifting materials, it invites visitors into an experience of touch, trace-making and presence in the here and now. The gesture of leaving fingerprints becomes both a physical act and a metaphor, initiating a process of reflection and immersion into one’s own history.

Ewa Kulesza’s exhibition is an encounter with what remains hidden yet fundamental to our inner world.

Ewa Kulesza (born 1977 in Poznań)

Between 1997 and 2003, she studied Film and Television Image Production and Photography, while simultaneously studying Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She completed diploma projects in Drawing and Sculpture under Professor Maciej Szańkowski and Professor Jarosław Kozłowski, as well as in Photography under Dr Krzysztof J. Baranowski. She received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Arts in 1997, followed by the City of Poznań Artistic Scholarship in 2004. She participated in artistic residencies in Bern, Switzerland (2000) and Nordic Kunst Dale, Norway (2007). In 2021, she was included in Secondary Archive – a research and archival platform dedicated to women artists from Central and Eastern Europe after World War II, created by the Katarzyna Kozyra Foundation, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, East Topics, Bjornson and MeetFactory.

Since 2004, she has been affiliated with the University of the Arts Poznań. She earned a doctorate in fine arts in 2009 and completed her habilitation in 2019. Since 2018, she has been a member of the university’s Scientific Council, and since 2024 also a member of the Senate and the Programme Council of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing. Between 2023 and 2025, she served as the coordinator of the Study in English programme in Art and Theory. Between 2011 and 2014, she co-created the TERAZ RYSUNEK project, as part of which 34 lectures by leading figures of Polish art were organised. Since 2022, together with Dr Diana Fiedler, she has co-led the Studio of Artistic Practices and Research at the University of the Arts Poznań.

Czas Kobiet Art Gallery is dedicated to supporting, promoting and expanding the visibility of contemporary women artists from different generations. Its mission is to create a space in which women working in the arts can freely develop their artistic practices, present new projects and build networks of solidarity and collaboration.

The gallery focuses on art engaging with issues crucial to contemporary life: femininity and its cultural representations, community and sisterhood, women’s rights, anti-violence initiatives, the redefinition of social roles and the search for languages of agency. It supports artists who explore the place of women within art history and reflect on redefining the canon, as well as those responding directly to current social and cultural realities.

For several years, the gallery has provided living women artists with a professional, open and safe space for presenting projects across a wide range of media – from painting, drawing and sculpture to photography, multimedia installations and performance art. Both individual and collective exhibitions are presented, emphasising dialogue, exchange of perspectives and the community-building potential carried by art.