SABAT MATER

EXHIBITION OPEN FROM JULY 4 TO AUGUST 31
AT THE CASTLE MUSEUM IN OSTRÓDA

Sabbat — not as a witches' gathering, but as a return to the source.
Not as myth, but as the pulsing truth of existence.
Sabat Mater is an exhibition of paintings born at the threshold of ritual, vision, and inward descent. A space immersed in symbolic thickets, where images do not represent — they invoke. Each canvas is a spell, a sign, a fissure. Each form bears witness to a reality deeper than the everyday, more primordial than culture.

There is no comfort or literalness in these works. This is an iconostasis of the wild sacred — dreamlike shapes, unsettling beings, geometric knots, and esoteric configurations conjure the memory of another order: ritualistic, initiatory, oneiric. They resist interpretation but demand participation.

The symbolism in these works emerges from the depths: from alchemy, mysticism, archaic myths, the body, and the darkness. It is not about subject matter, but about a state — a state of presence before something greater than the self. Sabbat as the whirling of forces. Mater as matter-consciousness, as the gesture of incarnation.

This is not a narrative exhibition.
It tells no story.
It is a collection of invocations.
Sealed within images that are like sigils: weighty, alive, hidden.
Sabat Mater opens a space where art is not for decoration, but for transformation.
It does not explain.
It calls.

Above: a few photos from the opening night of the exhibition. Photography by Agnieszka Kołodziejska.