Despite all its finesse, this exhibition is an introduction, or perhaps rather a dream, imbued with prophetic potential? Even before leaving, I contemplate this while visiting the Rektorat gallery. As the name suggests, the gallery is located in the building of the University of Zielona Góra; the creation and functioning of this space are yet another element of the legacy of the activities of the Złote Grono and Biennale Sztuki Nowej communities. So, we enter the basement of an impressive pre-war building. The "Baseline" exhibition by its initiator, artist and lecturer associated with the university, Paulina Komorowska-Birger, is on display. However, the space is empty. I look for some artwork, intervention, walking on the freshly poured concrete floor—unaware that I have already found it. The Rektorat gallery was originally covered with shiny, polished stone; anyone who organizes exhibitions knows that such a "difficult" floor can thwart even the most ambitious plans. Now the stone is hidden under a thin layer of concrete poured by Komorowska-Birger. This practical fantasy about the white cube turns out to be fundamentally very painterly; it is a picture we walk on, a picture in which we already exist. When the concrete on the floor ceases to be "transparent," and I perceive a deliberate intervention in it, the gallery space fills with potentiality, becoming a frame for dreams about what might happen here. The present is an emptiness, like this gallery. We will see each other here in two years, in the future. The Biennale in Zielona Góra is on its trail.

Stach Szabłowski, Dreaming of the Biennale, dwutygodnik.com

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