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The 2021’s work on the “Place with a Scar” exhibition consumed a great deal of time and emotions, but, as we can find out again, it was worth of the effort involved. This time it was recognised by receiving an award for the artistic setting of the exhibition, which is the work of Artur Lubos of the VidiFilm staff.

The Złoty Leonardo da Vinci (Goldern Leonardo da Vinci) award ceremony was held on 30 November in the Cinema Hall the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, as part of the 5th edition of the ART in Architecture Festival. The Museum, as the investor that had commissioned and supervised the exhibition project, was also presented with a distinction diploma.

We are proud of this joint achievement, as we know very well how difficult it is to reconcile architectural functions with a no banal, that emphasises the nature of an investment, form. Being aware of that, we made the decision to introduce art into the space of the exhibition designed on the site of the former prisoner-of war-camp Stalag 318/VIII F (344) Lamsdorf in Łambinowice.

The adopted formal solutions have passed the practical test, and now also another challenge - a successful expert verification within the framework of the competition, whose jury includes architects, designers and art critics. The decision to award the artistic vision introduced into the “Place with a Scar”, in the 'exhibition' category, was explained by the chairman of the jury, Przemo Łukasik, in the following way:

When the scars of previous wars and conflicts, have not fully been healed yet, already new ones injure our bodies and souls.

When we haven't learnt from even the most tragic experience of wrong and pain, and willingly get involved in new ones, it is worth looking for such forms of expression that, at the meeting point of imagination and reality, provoke reflection.

When the reality of human dramas and tragedies is shown in every media outlet. When one can follow pain and suffering online. When dead and bloodied bodies, multiplied by thousands of report from Ukraine, Syria, Yemen and Gaza, no longer provoke any reflection, and make us completely indifferent, one can only count on art.

This is where the imagination comes into play. There is no room for the literal understanding. Here pain and martyrdom might be expressed, not with heaps of shoes and glasses.

Simple, differentiated, wooden human shapes, arranged in clusters, standing behind barbed wire, silently shout to us to come to our senses.

There is no sound, there is only silence. Plainness and simplicity of expression.

One can stand in front of this bunch of wooden figures or mix with them. One can feel the feelings of loneliness, fear and numbness. Some figures are anonymous, others have a personality. For a moment you can become one of the wooden contours.

We would like to thank the jury for their appreciation of our museum exhibition, and we warmly congratulate Artur Lubos and the entire VidiFilm staff on receiving this recognition!