A TIGER OR A LION

TIGER OR LION is a fragment of Ilona Witkowska‘s poem which opens the exhibition “Let’s accept what we don’t like” by Ros Khavro.

The paths of the poet and the artist crossed several times. Only shortly before the exhibition they managed to meet in Sokołowsko, where Ilona Witkowska lives and works. It was there that Ros made a portrait of Ilona, ​​which he included in his exhibition.

At the meeting, Witkowska and Khavro will talk about the art practiced by Ros, his maturation as an artist, the selection of topics, materials, techniques and working methods. Ros, in turn, referring to Ilona’s poem, will ask what influences and inspires poets more in their work – the word or perhaps the image, color, shape and texture?

Free entrance!

*Ilona Witkowska – poet; author of the books “splendida realta” (WBPiCAK, 2012), “Lucifer wins” (Ha!art, 2017) and “where are my children?” (Paper down/Katalog press, 2021); co-author of the script for the etude “If you sit in silence for a long time, other animals will come to you” directed by Jagoda Szelc (Erotica 2022, Netflix, 2020) and one of the authors of the project “Nieswojość” (Layers, 2019); lives in Sokołowsko.

*Ros Khavro – born in 1988 in Lviv. In the years 2010-2014, while living in Amsterdam, he became interested in and deepened his knowledge of noble photographic techniques, which initiated many years of practice and a wide range of experiments in this field – both technically and artistically. This process continues to this day and, over time, is transferred to other art media. In 2017, he graduated in Graphics from the Social Academy of Sciences (SAN) in Warsaw. Living and creating in Wrocław for 9 years, the artist also translates his vision into Drawing and Sculpture. By crossing and passing through multicultural planes, social observations and his own experiences, the artist unwinds his genetic spiral, from the center of which forms emerge. The same forms he encountered in childhood, awareness of the here and now. In his own endless dialogue with matter, he uses composition aesthetically, showing how rich reality is.