Press Release
Black tea is said to brighten thoughts, especially on a long, sleepless night. Tomek Kręcicki’s monu- mental mug fills the gallery as part of the latest exhibition presented at Rhetoric. Labels of tea bags protrude from the overscaled vessel, but instead of manufacturer logos, they offer us a set of painterly works - lapidary representations of objects and situations that make up a pre-sleep ritual: sleeping pills, earplugs, water drops dripping over the sink. The twists and turns lull us into an evening aura of anticipation for a well-deserved rest. However, after the daily stimuli, work, exposure to the blue light
of screens, sleep does not want to come, and time begins to play tricks on us.
