I Wish It Were Just a Dream - exhibition

I Wish It Were Just a Dream - Zofia Gajewska's solo exhibition

• Exhibition opening: October 23, 6:00 PM
• Venue: Rzeszów Cultural Incubator, Jagiellońska 24
• Exhibition duration: October 23-November 23, 2025
• Curator: Adrianna Gajdziszewska
• Free admission!

Dreams don't end at the moment of waking – they spill into reality, demanding presence. Freud wrote that dream analysis is the royal road to understanding the unconscious. But what if, in the digital age, this road has turned into a highway, full of junk images, toxic desires, and memory loops?

This is precisely where Zofia Gajewska's work finds its place – among glitches, memes, and fragments of pop culture that seem light at first glance, yet pulsate with anxiety and intensity. Her practice resonates with the condition of the contemporary subject immersed in a culture of excess. It is the voice of someone who grew up scrolling, experiencing, and forgetting. It is a voice engaging in dialogue with the aesthetics of chaos and digital ambiguity. Gajewska's painterly collages, composed of memes and internet images, transform the seemingly banal into a timely reflection on the collective experience of a generation.

Meet the author and curator

Zofia Gajewska (born 2001, Rzeszów) is a student of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She works with painting, murals, drawing, and handpoke tattooing. Her work draws on pop culture, memes, and the culture of online groups and forums. She explores themes of overstimulation, information overload, and the challenges faced by someone who grows up in a digital world from a young age. She has created murals, including those at Primary School No. 48 named after Prof. Kazimierz Demel in Gdynia and winner of the Waterfront Gdynia competition (2023). She has participated in group exhibitions, including "Inside a Girl's Handbag" (Gdynia 2023), "20s" (Gdynia Film Centre, 2023), "Przegrys" (Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk 2023), "Self Control" (Gdańsk 2024), "Night of Museums" (Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk 2024), and "Art'em All" (Plenum, Gdańsk 2025).

Adrianna Gajdziszewska is an artist and art historian based in Krakow, specializing in sculpture, installation, and ceramics. Her work explores themes that connect art with the humanities and natural sciences. A recipient of scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the KPO, she was recognized in the "Kompas Sztuki" ranking of the best young artists (2023, 2024), and has participated in numerous exhibitions, competitions, and artistic residencies in Poland and abroad. She runs an educational portal, ig: @twardasztuka_com, and creates high school final exam courses in art history as an examiner for the Regional Examination Board. She is a lecturer, curator, and organizer of cultural events. In 2025, she was recognized in the Animator of the Year competition.

Ig: ada_w_udrzeniu

The exhibition is organized as part of the My First Gallery project.
The exhibition is part of this year's program, Miasto:Twórca - co się swoim Twórca? (City: Creator - What's Being Created?).