The forest begins where the path ends and the marshes take over, where the laws of linear time cease to apply. The thicket is a place of power, mystery, and myth-making, where the gaze no longer glides across the surface but forces its way through dense undergrowth, stumbles over roots, and loses itself in the twilight.
The forest is the primordial labyrinth, shaped not by the structural logic of the human mind but by nature itself. Its enchantment offers a perfect image of the rhizome: a system that grows not along a single line, but outward in all directions, like woodland undergrowth. The artists brought together in this exhibition work in much the same way: their images do not illustrate narratives, but grow out of one another, permeating the space with meaning and creating a dense atmosphere of fairy-tale imagination.
Here, in the depths of the forest, consciousness relinquishes its authority and opens itself to dreams, myth, and hallucination. Trees become totems, shadows turn into creatures, and paths become threads leading towards the centre of the labyrinth, where the voice of our own subconscious may dwell.
The artists explore this realm of endless wandering, becoming gatherers of an excess of meaning. They reveal a forest in which familiar connections unravel and ordinary things cease to be what they seem. Perhaps this is precisely why the forest exerts such a powerful attraction: it returns us to childhood, when the world was still filled with magic.