2025
sound installation

Daniel Leżoń’s sound installation takes the form of a temporary greenhouse filled with a swarm of male voices. Inside, we hear dozens of men – actors, dancers, students, participants in men’s circles, members of the VOLUP Warsaw sports club – offering wishes to their brothers, fathers, friends, teammates, partners, teachers and to themselves. Together, they testify to masculine sensitivity and strength.

Leżoń addresses the crucial issue of men excluding both themselves and others from belonging to masculinity. In striving to meet unrealistic standards, men often reject parts of their own identity. For the participants, the installation became a threshold space – a place where they could speak and listen without the mask of competition or the pressure to appear strong. The shifting colours of light evoke the colours of voices, sports teams, war paint, as well as the full spectrum visible to the human eye.

The greenhouse, positioned near a football stadium, gains particular resonance. For many, the pitch is a space of rivalry, pressure and defeat – a world divided into winners and losers. Footballers, often perceived as symbols of athletic masculinity, inhabit an environment defined by constant pressure, scrutiny and gender uniformity. Through NARRACJE, their voices bring into public space a conversation about emotional tension and the need for authenticity.

DANIEL LEŻOŃ is a performance artist whose practice focuses on the corporeality of the imagination. He is interested in the interactions of bodies and psyches – collisions, symbioses and transformations. Leżoń works with movement and touch. As a choreographer, he creates gestures, situations, temporary communities and the rules by which they operate. He examines the relationships between the dynamics of personal processes and the formation of communities. He has collaborated with drama theatres, taught movement and the basics of acting, and coordinated the Spaces of Art Katowice programme. Leżoń is a co-creator of the project Collisions Shop, realised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.