Contexts 2026 — 12th Festival of Ephemeral Art in Sokołowsko

In the life of an individual and in collective history, there are moments that act as editing cuts: sudden, violent, and irreversible. Psychologists call them turning points; events that reorganize our identities, relationships, and existence. Historians define them as critical moments in which private biographies are intersected by major events: wars, migrations, revolutions, economic or social crises. These two perspectives, the personal and the political, are not separate from each other, but constantly intertwine. The exhibition looks at precisely these points of intersection. We are particularly interested in those moments that seem insignificant, but create a snowball effect leading to the titular upheaval, an irreversible change.