For her exhibition “Zaciemnienie wnętrz” (Interior Blackout), Gizela Mickiewicz sought to find material form for charged emotional responses such as dread, fear, anxiety, and stress. In Doświadczenia zrównujące (Equating Experiences; all works 2022), tubular chair legs support a stack of five galvanized steel-mesh forms that look like molds taken of people’s bottoms and upper thighs while seated; each smaller than the one below it, they awkwardly cradle each other, evoking a restless unease. Intencje rąk (Hands’ Intentions), is a pile of armlike appendages in textured fabric entangled in what