Artist Tomasz Kowalski (Szczebrzeszyn, 1984) presents Sanatorium, an exhibition conceived specifically for Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo per l’arte contemporanea in Thiene, situated within a former church and psychiatric hospital, where the works on display reactivate the building’s layered histories devotion, confinement, illness, and introspection transforming them into an active psychological presence.

In his most recent works, the artist further investigates the question of simultaneous realities through the metaphor of the sanatorium and the psychiatric hospital, understood as spaces suspended outside ordinary temporality, where perception enters a liminal dimension and the boundaries between memory, hallucination, emotion, and physical reality become blurred.

Kowalski’s figures breathe within thresholds of possibility, both imaginative and physical: bodies, interiors, and atmospheres continually shift toward metaphor, while painting itself emerges as a portal to unstable mnemonic and psychological dimensions, in that alchemy through which pigments become worlds and brushstrokes become presences.