NO’AM is a photographic exploration of the boundaries of existence—a quest for a deeper understanding of reality through the confrontation with death and transience.
Grzegorz Wełnicki’s project originates from personal loss, gradually evolving into a years-long journey in search of answers to fundamental questions about the nature of being.
The artist examines moments of transition—from sacred funeral rites to contemporary technologies such as transhumanism and cryonics. His photographs intertwine intimate stories of people standing at the threshold of life and death with reflections on the materiality and fragility of the human body.
Combining minimalism, abstraction, and hyperrealism, Wełnicki creates images that balance between the tangible and the ephemeral. His photographs capture the tension between presence and absence, between endurance and decay. NO’AM does not portray death as an end but as a point of reference for a deeper understanding of the very act of existence.
As a member of the Institute of the Good Death, the artist initiates an open dialogue about the end of life and the continuous transformation that affects us all. Following Sartre’s thought—“Man is what he is not, and is not what he is”—NO’AM invites reflection on how the awareness of death shapes our perception of life.
„NO’AM” Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art open call project “Otwieramy się!”, Warsaw
