Jakub Jernajczyk is a visual artist, mathematician and populariser of science. He holds a postdoctoral degree in arts and works as a professor in the Department of Media Art at the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Since 2019 he has also served as Dean of the Doctoral School at the same academy. He is interested in the cognitive aspects of perception and visual imagination and in the role of art in explaining scientific problems. He has written numerous scientific texts on the borderline between philosophy, mathematics and art theory.

Among the artistic intentions of Jakub Jernajczyk – who, in addition to his artistic studies, has also graduated in mathematics – the educational one certainly needs to be emphasised. He encourages us to wander between the realms of the rational and the sensual. The ideas or, referring to the title, arguments (mathematical, philosophical) are expressed with artistic means and transformed into images, sometimes moving and interactive. The science of image and imaging teaches us that what is produced on the basis of something else is not merely a reproduction of the original idea, but has the potential to show reality in a different, perhaps new, light. It is therefore recommended to stay alert and keep your eyes open while touring the exhibition!

Two quotes can be regarded as signposts during this tour: "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world" by Ludwig Wittgenstein and "If our operative logic proves false, all sciences will become poetry" by Stanisław Jerzy Lec. In both of them, the starting point is the human as the declarative measure of all things, but they are actually about the conventionality of knowledge as facts: what scientific truth and objectivity are and what they mean to different people. A recurrent theme in Jernajczyk's practice is also the rethinking of culture as a construct founded on the human predilection for schematising and ordering things. Simplification may make it easier to grasp reality and assimilate basic knowledge, but at the expense of narrowing down one's vision of the world and discouraging further exploration.

Jernajczyk is interested in interdisciplinary thinking; he analyses our mechanisms of perception and learning about the world, and shows us the patterns of thinking that have been forced upon us. Thanks to his critical approach to the established ways of presenting knowledge, surprising phenomena are revealed to us: definite integrals presented in the form of the human body lulled to sleep, entropy ensnared by declension, the mathematical and philosophical speculations of Nicolaus of Cusa experienced as a sunset. There will also be time to look at the starry sky, as it is the constellations that guide us at night.