In search of a homeland. The testimonies and prophecies of Czesław Miłosz

In search of a homeland. The testimonies and prophecies of Czesław Miłosz

An exhibition in the space of the Krasnogruda manor tells us about what became for Czesław Miłosz his fate, obsession, dream, life’s utopia and a task set out for him himself in the form of the daily discipline of work – the search for a homeland. The loss of place, uprooting – that is one of the fundamental drams of modern human beings.

The author of “The Land of Ulro” is not only able to go deep down into these layers of existence but can also revolt against the matrix of the refugee’s fate and desperately search for a way out of the disinherited country. Banished from the land of his family, childhood, nature, religious imagination, he finds a homeland along the line of return, apokatastasis or restoration. Returning to Krasnogruda in 1989 he wrote “Honour the protest against inflexible law ...”

The exhibition was conceived and scripted by: Małgorzata and Krzysztof Czyżewski, designed by Aleksandra Wasilkowska with graphic design by: Grzegorz Laszuk