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Meeting with Anita Andrzejewska, author of the book Dancing Your Dream Awake
21.09.2025 | 15:00
Leon Wyczółkowski District Museum in Bydgoszcz (Audiovisual room), Gdańska 4, Bydgoszcz
The event will be held in Polish.
“Dancing Your Dream Awake” is a book created over the course of twenty years, across four continents: Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa.
In it, I tell the story of a journey and of observing the world through the lens of dream and dreaming – a state of mind which, in many shamanic cultures as well as in post-Jungian process-oriented psychology, embraces both the physical and the spiritual dimensions of reality. Connected with dreaming, we are able to interpret the meaning of every element of the universe that enters into interaction with us. Just as the Aboriginal people of Australia perceive in their landscapes the traces of ancestral journeys from the mythical Dreamtime, or as the Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, looking at a sheet of paper, could see within it a cloud – the source of the rain that gave life to the tree from which the paper was made.
The 63 black-and-white photographs selected for the book are the result of attentive seeing and a desire to embrace the fullness of life’s experience – what is beautiful as well as what is terrifying. They also reveal a more subtle beauty: the beauty of life’s cycle, including death and decay. They invite direct, sensory engagement and a deeper connection with the reality of physical and biological existence.
Anita Andrzejewska – Photographer, children’s book illustrator, traveller and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. For many years she has been involved in art and social projects connecting Europe and Asia. Amongst other things, she has led art workshops for children in Ahmedabad, India and has collaborated in various photographic-literary projects in Iran, Turkey and Italy. She is the winner of a Minister of Culture scholarship as well as many other national and international prizes, among them: the Project Competition at the Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts in the USA and the children’s illustration competition “Figures Futur“ in France. Her work has been exhibited in Japan, the USA, Iran, Turkey, Canada, Germany, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Spain, Iceland, Hungary and Slovakia. She specialises in analog photography and silver printing. She also runs photography workshops for children and adults.