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Exhibition ‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’
The Faculty of Fine Arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University invites you to the exhibition ‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’ by Satabdi Hati. The opening will take place on 14 January 2026 at 5 p.m. at the Dworzec Zachodni ACKiS Od Nowa Gallery (Gagarina 37a Street in Toruń).
‘Zmysł/Onubhob/Senses’ combines works created as a result of the artist's many years of travelling through different countries, cultures and emotional landscapes. Handmade Nepalese Lokta paper, charcoal, hemp fibre, ink, coffee, dry leaves and tea stains create an organic language of forms, balancing between the real and the imagined. In her latest works, the artist also uses inks prepared by hand from avocado skins, beetroots and oak acorns, deepening her relationship with matter and the natural world.
An important element of the exhibition is language, present in many versions: Bengali, Polish, English, Hindi, Sanskrit and French. It becomes a landscape of transition, in which words such as ‘home,’ ‘unknown’, and ‘life’ form a poetic map of experiences of migration, rootedness and transformation.
This series was strongly influenced by the quiet, grey mornings of the Polish winter, slowing down the creative process and directing it towards intuition. Here, paper becomes a space for reflection, confirming Anne Frank's words that ‘paper has more patience than people’.
The exhibition is part of the artist's doctoral research on the use of natural materials in contemporary art. It is an invitation to pause and reconnect with nature and with the inner, silent landscapes that each of us carries within ourselves.
The exhibition will run until 18 March 2026. The curator of the exhibition is Dr Katarzyna Łyszkowska, professor at the Department of Drawing at Nicolaus Copernicus University.
