MINORIA | Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski — Warsaw

13–27 November 2026 · Opening: 13 November, 19:00 · ORAC Gallery, Nowolipki 27, Warsaw.

ORAC Gallery presents a new body of works by Józef Krzysztof Oraczewski within MINORIA, the artistic and curatorial project conceived by Monika Turczyńska. The exhibition continues the artist’s exploration of the mask through newly created works, taking its familiar presence into a different material and pictorial register.

In these works, a milky layer gradually became transparent, allowing the mask beneath to emerge. As opacity receded, colour, gesture and the contours of the face became visible in a new way. The transformation took place within the material itself: time participated in the making of the image.

The works carry the memory of that gradual disclosure. A face appears through traces, interruptions and overlapping surfaces; its presence remains open to the movement of the gaze. Within MINORIA, this passage from concealment to visibility becomes a way of thinking…