Exhibition: Spaces of everyday life

Hall, Congress Center Of The Agriculture University

May, 2025

In psychological or sociological literature, space is always present with a subject who experiences it. It can be viewed as a living space one is born into and in which one finds their own place, as a specific dimension which becomes one’s everyday workplace, a specific house with its furniture and history, or a city one lives in, with its surroundings closed within the frames of material/physical and social experiences etc. Human experience is dominated mainly by the real, physical space – a result of objectification of the world in tools (also caused by actions and care that determines the perception of space). This objectification can take on the form of alternative spaces during rest, relax and spiritual distancing to everyday business. In these alternative spaces, the subjective sense of the flow of time changes from real to biographical or mythical.

Considering the above, it is justified to say that Seweryn Puchała’s photographs included in Spaces of everyday life exhibition give the audience an opportunity to experience spiritual and aesthetic raptures typical for alternative spaces. In the Author’s works, time and space are filled with new, sublime and individual emotions and experiences, introducing the visitors to new meanings assigned to both, spaces and self experienced in them, immersed in own dreams and limitless, endless imagination. The black-and-white world provides countless colours to everyday spaces which, through Author’s photographs, become stimuli for unusual experiences not limited by usual perception of what is. Everyday spaces allow to see that, what is elusive, trapped between shadows and lights, mystery, obliqueness, white, black, gray, what is captured in the infinite experiences and meanings given to them by the spectators.

                                                                       Review by

Assc. prof. Joanna M. Łukasik