Płachta objaśnień [Sheet of Explanations] – Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

On the third day of the Nobody Reads This: Art Book Fair, on Sunday 24 May 2026 at 2:00 p.m., the launch of Płachta objaśnień by Piotr Bosacki will take place. The meeting with the author will be moderated by Mateusz Marczewski.

Płachta objaśnień [Sheet of Explanations] is a poetry collection composed of thirty-seven poems. The poems are accompanied by commentaries, which function as second-degree poems of a kind. Taken together, the work resembles a mind map, a board of connections, or even a so-called conspiracy board. The author says: “These are poems that came about almost accidentally, in the sense that anyone who uses words has certain sentences circulating in their mind, like persistent melodies.” Poets are generally reluctant to explain why they constructed a particular line or paragraph in one way rather than another. Bosacki displays quite the opposite tendency. This is perhaps connected to the fact that he is an art teacher, and explaining forms is part of his professional practice.

• Piotr Bosacki

  • a visual artist, creator of animated films, videos, installations, objects, poet, composer, and educator. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, he co-founded the informal artistic group PENERSTWO. In 2009, he published Traumtagebuch (Dziennik snów) [Dream Diary], in which he described, among other things, the technology of frameless film (continuous film image). In 2011, he wrote Urządzenie elementów [Device of Elements], a treatise on the work of art as a linguistic construct in the context of complexity theory. In 2016, he authored Komentarz do rzeczy oczywistych [Commentary on Obvious Things], a collection of philosophical essays. He runs the Experimental Film Studio at the University of Arts in Poznań. In his work with students, he tends to focus on formalist and structuralist issues.

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• Mateusz Marczewski

  • a cultural anthropologist, PhD in humanities, poet, prose writer, reporter, author of the books Pasażerowie [Passengers] (Czarne, 2024), Niewidzialni [Invisibles] (Czarne, 2008), and Koliste jeziora Białorusi [The Circular Lakes of Belarus] (Czarne, 2017). He is a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. He is the author of the teaching method and the creative writing course Writing as a Process, which is based on it and organised in cooperation with the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.