Sleep tight, sweet dreams
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Sleep, a universal experience, has been a subject of reflection since the earliest times. It was perceived as a journey to a mysterious realm, with a foretaste of the afterlife. When asleep, one could shake off the constrictions of matter, time and space, come face to face with the sacred or encounter those who had passed away. It was when one was sleeping that knowledge unavailable in waking life was revealed, and it could be discovered and understood through prophets and interpreters.
Sleep likened to death has been one of the most popular themes found in many cultures since the ancient times. Simultaneously, the question of whether life was not a dream appeared.
The 20th century, with the development of psychoanalysis and new trends in art, changed the view on sleep and dreaming. Dreams were to become the key to understanding the most deeply hidden secrets of the human mind, a source of knowledge about the unconscious. We are still trying to understand the mystery of sleep in various ways…
I dreamt that I was a butterfly… So am I Chuang Tzu who dreamt that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that it is Chuang Tzu? - (Zhuangzi, Tao Master, 4th/3rd century BC)
(...) what is reality? How do we know that what we dream is unreal and what we experience in our waking life is real? - Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language. An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths, 1951
Curatorial team: Beata Skoczeń-Marchewka, Justyna Masłowiec, Kamila Wasilewska – Prędki
Exhibition design and graphic design: Monika Bielak
Texts: Beata Skoczeń-Marchewka, Justyna Masłowiec, Kamila Wasilewska – Prędki
Photographs: Marcin Jędrysiak, Anna Tarko
Digitization of materials: Mateusz Król, Natalia Ciemborowicz – Luber
Editing and proofreading of the Polish texts: Anna Kowalczyk
Scholarly consultation: dr hab. Monika Golonki – Czajkowska, prof. UJ
Translation: Klara Laudańska, Anna Sak
Conservation supervision: Agata Barczyńska, Katarzyna Mazurek - Lebowska, Renata Palka, Katarzyna Wilaszek-Rozwadowska
Exhibition production: Iwona Matuła, Grzegorz Kurek, Tomasz Ostafin, Paweł Przybylski, Krzysztof Wójtowicz
Technical consultation and coordination: Adrian Tomasik, Jacek Szymański
Graphic works: Agata Ziomek
Educational programme: Mirosław Bury, Anna Koblak, Urszula Sobczyk, Agata Ziomek
Promotion: Piotr Bujakiewicz, Joanna Grabeus, Olga Łuczyńska-Gawron, Maria Suska
Accessibility consultation: Anna Szelingowska
In addition to works from the collections of the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, the exhibition features objects, photos and audio recordings kindly made available by:
· The Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Kraków
· Museum of Photography in Kraków
· The Museum of Nowy Sącz Land in Nowy Sącz
· Municipal Museum in Żory
· The National Digital Archives
· Magdalena Chadaj
· The Audiolibrary of the Jerzy Bartmiński Ethnolinguistic Laboratory at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
Sleep likened to death has been one of the most popular themes found in many cultures since the ancient times. Simultaneously, the question of whether life was not a dream appeared.
The 20th century, with the development of psychoanalysis and new trends in art, changed the view on sleep and dreaming. Dreams were to become the key to understanding the most deeply hidden secrets of the human mind, a source of knowledge about the unconscious. We are still trying to understand the mystery of sleep in various ways…
I dreamt that I was a butterfly… So am I Chuang Tzu who dreamt that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that it is Chuang Tzu? - (Zhuangzi, Tao Master, 4th/3rd century BC)
(...) what is reality? How do we know that what we dream is unreal and what we experience in our waking life is real? - Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language. An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths, 1951
Curatorial team: Beata Skoczeń-Marchewka, Justyna Masłowiec, Kamila Wasilewska – Prędki
Exhibition design and graphic design: Monika Bielak
Texts: Beata Skoczeń-Marchewka, Justyna Masłowiec, Kamila Wasilewska – Prędki
Photographs: Marcin Jędrysiak, Anna Tarko
Digitization of materials: Mateusz Król, Natalia Ciemborowicz – Luber
Editing and proofreading of the Polish texts: Anna Kowalczyk
Scholarly consultation: dr hab. Monika Golonki – Czajkowska, prof. UJ
Translation: Klara Laudańska, Anna Sak
Conservation supervision: Agata Barczyńska, Katarzyna Mazurek - Lebowska, Renata Palka, Katarzyna Wilaszek-Rozwadowska
Exhibition production: Iwona Matuła, Grzegorz Kurek, Tomasz Ostafin, Paweł Przybylski, Krzysztof Wójtowicz
Technical consultation and coordination: Adrian Tomasik, Jacek Szymański
Graphic works: Agata Ziomek
Educational programme: Mirosław Bury, Anna Koblak, Urszula Sobczyk, Agata Ziomek
Promotion: Piotr Bujakiewicz, Joanna Grabeus, Olga Łuczyńska-Gawron, Maria Suska
Accessibility consultation: Anna Szelingowska
In addition to works from the collections of the Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Kraków, the exhibition features objects, photos and audio recordings kindly made available by:
· The Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Kraków
· Museum of Photography in Kraków
· The Museum of Nowy Sącz Land in Nowy Sącz
· Municipal Museum in Żory
· The National Digital Archives
· Magdalena Chadaj
· The Audiolibrary of the Jerzy Bartmiński Ethnolinguistic Laboratory at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin
