Lukasz Sawicki - ABC of Socrateism
Painting exhibition as part of the ENTRY Initiative Award

The exhibition by Lukasz Sawicki, a finalist of the Entry 2024 Prize, is a visual development of themes and motifs from his original novel. In his paintings, he analyses the tension between the chaos of reality and the attempt to understand it, while highlighting the illusory nature of all belief systems and social orders. Order-supporting structures and myths are disrupted in Sawicki's canvases, making the perceiver witness their disintegration. The image of the world bends, as in a distorting mirror, revealing its cracks and imperfections.

"Lukasz Sawicki's painting is an experiment in impersonating a painter living in an alternative historical reality, which should be read as a metaphor for the contradictions of our historical condition. Moreover, in the parallel vision of the world created by Sawicki, a certain metaphysical intuition comes to the fore: two kinds of chaos. The chaos of the real and the chaos of the real. The distinction between reality and the real, which Sawicki himself uses after Jacques Lacan, means only that we live in a necessary illusion in order to endure the trauma that constitutes us. The real is thus an order constructed in response to the real. The moment that Sawicki wishes to portray is the collapse of this illusion of the real by the real, their heterogeneous entanglement."

Łukasz Sawicki - graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and from the Faculty of Law at the University of Warsaw. Winner of the ENTRY 2024 Initiative Award competition, finalist of the New Image New Look competition (2023). In his work, he focuses on the philosophical and cultural aspects of modernity juxtaposed with postmodernism, while developing themes and motifs from his authorial Silence of Socrates is definitely overrated.