Nap | Exhibition of the Experimental Film Department

Nap | Exhibition of the Experimental Film Department

Venue: Nowa Scena Gallery, UAP, 28 Marcinkowskiego Ave., Poznan
Opening: March 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
Exhibition dates: March 6-15, 2026

March 13, 6:00 PM – Q&A with the artists
March 15, 6:00 PM – Q&A with the artists

Participating students:
Roch Adamczak, Julita Adaszak, Krzysztof Badowiec, Miriam Szypryt, Bartosz Bućko-Łoś, Iga Brzozowska, Zuzanna Czarczyńska, Maja Drejer, Alicja Gajda, Karol Jastrzębski, Kinga Klajbor, Hubert Klimczak, Hanna Klewiado, Borys Korzyb, Agnieszka Kujawa-Bartosik, Zofia Kulesza, Bruno Kuzyszyn, Kalina Lamentowicz, Jędrzej Lisowski, Sofya Maroz, Adrianna Metryka, Julia Mendyk, Tymon Modrzyński, Antoni Możdżeń, Natalia Nalepka, Izabela Nykiel, Julia Opania, Antoni Orlof, Maja Kasprzak, Malwina Postaremczak, Zuzanna Sakowicz, Filip Świadek, Joanna Suppan, Bartek Walczak, Hugo Woźniak, Jakub Żwirełło, Julia Zioła, Maksymilian Zdanowski, Blanka Kęstowicz, Julia Borowska, Grzegorz Bartosik

Curator: Ewelina Węgiel

Conceptual and coordination support: Anna Konik, Sławomir Sobczak

The artists invite viewers and themselves into a 3.5-hour nap. This state becomes a moment of heightened sensitivity, in which the logic of linear narrative gives way to associations, images, and affects. It is a suspension between wakefulness and sleep, focus and distraction, individual experience and collective presence.

Experiencing video works requires a different mode of understanding. Often devoid of classical narrative structures, they ask viewers to develop new intuitions. The video medium operates with time in a unique way – it allows it to bend, stretch, loop, and suspend. In this sense, watching becomes a practice of duration and presence.

Sleep can be a way of being together, a tender suspension of the world. Nap opens a space for gently loosening perception, allowing one to drift between images and experience them in a more bodily rather than interpretative dimension.

Watching together builds a sense of community. The audience experiences and receives the works, but also co-creates them – through presence, attention, and bodily reactions. Many of the films are created collectively, through dialogue and collaboration. Together, they form a polyphony of experiences and experiments emerging from engagement with the moving image, a collection of diverse languages, rhythms, and sensitivities.

The presented films grow out of the personal experiences of the students – from moments of suspension, uncertainty, and intense perception of the world. Private stories and affects are transformed into images drifting between reality and imagination.

Many of the works will be presented publicly for the first time. The artists will have the opportunity to confront their intuitions with the perception of the audience. This shared nap therefore holds the potential for genuine exchange. The selection reflects as wide a spectrum of voices as possible – each participant who submitted work presents one film, contributing to a collective, brief dream.

Within the exhibition space, visitors are invited to sit or lie down wherever they feel most comfortable, to fall asleep, talk, whisper, laugh, react. What matters is to feel safe and at ease – to allow oneself to relax and enter a state of softened presence.