from 5th August and to 6 October 2023

The event takes its title from Andrzej Ziółkowski’s eponymous photographic album. Images of places of worship, rituals, as well as people’s bodies, faces, and hands serve as an artistic commentary on poetic translations of excerpts from the Hinduist Upanishads, Buddhist sutras, the mysterious Taoist Tao Te Ching, the Koran, Sikh hymns from the Guru Granth Sahib, wisdom books from the Hebrew Jewish Bible, and the New Testament parables. The artist invites us to meet followers of the world’s great religions in South-East Asia and to embark on a spiritual journey through their wise holy books.

Having graduated in electronics, the author worked in the electronic industry for many years, until in 2005 he dedicated himself to his photographic passion. His journey through South India led him in 2012 to the Christian Aanmodaya Ashram in Kanchipuram, where he discovered the book titled Universal Wisdom: A Journey Through the Sacred Wisdom of the World, written by the UK Benedictine author Bede Griffiths (1906-1993). Inspired by the spiritual testament of that great mystic and sage, who calls on people ‘to transcend the cultural limitations of the great religions and to find a wisdom […] which underlies all their diversities.’, Ziółkowski travelled through South-East Asia, India, Nepal, and Tibet, aspiring to capture human spirituality’s universal dimension in his photos, regardless of what religion his protagonists represent.

Exhibition partners:

BONI LIBRI, ZAIKS, IDEA STUDIO

The artist has received a grant from the ZAiKS Association’s Creativity Support Fund.

The photographs can be viewed at the Villa Lentza between 5th August and 6 October 2023.

Possibility to visit the exhibition "Eternal Wisdom. Universal Wisdom", every day (except Sundays and Mondays) in the following hours:

Tuesday – 10:00-16:00

Wednesday – 10:00-18:00

Thursday – 10:00-16:00

Friday – 10:00-16:00

Saturday – 10:00-16:00

We cordially invite you.