展演資訊
《Spotlight ─ 波蘭兒童插畫的狂歡舞台》
本展並未試圖以單一風格、世代或流派來分類作品，而是建構出一個由眾多創作者共同組成的「星座」。每位藝術家皆發展出獨特的敘事方式，而他們之間的關聯並非建立於一致性，而是在於交流、對話，以及不同視覺邏輯的並存。展覽所呈現的是一種多聲部的結構，共同回應一個問題：圖像如何在超越線性敘事的情況下創造意義？
在這個結構之中，「書」扮演核心角色。它不僅是插畫的載體，更是一種組織思考的形式。書籍透過頁面順序建立節奏、張力、停頓與意義的轉換，而插畫則在其中與這個結構互動——有時強化敘事，有時打破既有秩序，有時甚至延伸至敘事之外，開啟更多平行且開放的詮釋可能。
展覽於「不只是圖書館」展出，藉由其與書籍天然連結的空間特質，引導觀眾將焦點從單純的閱讀內容，轉向觀看與觀察的行為本身。在這裡，書不再只是線性閱讀的媒介，而成為一種視覺物件，邀請觀眾透過凝視、回看與比較的方式探索其中的意義。
參展藝術家將插畫視為一套開放的系統，而非固定的類別。他們的創作穿梭於觀察與建構、幽默與抽象、親密與距離之間。有些作品透過連續性的敘事建構故事，有些則藉由碎片化結構、隱喻或極簡化的視覺表現來傳達觀點。然而，他們皆將圖像視為一個思考得以轉化為視覺形式的空間，而非追求唯一或最終的答案。
本展共展出 14 位波蘭藝術家的 28 本圖畫書及 28 件原作插畫。透過這樣的展示架構，觀眾既能將書籍視為完整的敘事作品閱讀，也能從單幅作品中看見藝術家獨立的視覺決策與創作思維，進一步理解故事如何在圖像、頁面順序與書籍形式之間被共同建構。
《Spotlight on Polish Illustration》最終希望將插畫理解為一個持續翻譯與轉換的場域——介於圖像與敘事、創作者與讀者、結構與直覺、私人創作與公開出版、傳統與實驗之間。這並非一次對既定成果的展示，而是試圖捕捉插畫作為一種思考過程的當下狀態：視覺的、關係性的，以及開放未完成的。
本展邀請觀眾走入這樣的創作場域：在這裡，繪畫並非為既有內容提供說明，而是與內容共同生成；書籍不只是整理圖像的容器，更是意義生成的場所；而故事也並非先於圖像存在，而是在圖像與觀看之間持續協商、逐漸浮現。
Spotlight on Polish Illustration presents a contemporary landscape of Polish illustration understood as a shared space of thinking in images, where narrative, drawing, and book design form a single, interdependent system. The exhibition focuses on recent publications — often newly released or still in production — treating illustration as a practice in motion, shaped by multiple distinct artistic languages.
Rather than organising the works into a single stylistic or generational framework, the exhibition constructs a constellation of voices. Each artist develops an individual approach to storytelling, yet together they form a field defined not by unity, but by exchange and the coexistence of different visual logics. What emerges is a polyphonic structure, bound by a shared question of how images can produce meaning beyond linear narration.
At the centre of this structure lies the book — not only as a carrier of illustration, but as a form that organises thought. It is a sequence that shapes rhythm, tension, pauses, and shifts in meaning. Illustration operates in relation to this structure: at times reinforcing it, at times destabilising it, and at times extending it beyond narrative boundaries into parallel and open-ended forms of sense-making.
Installed within Not Just Library, the exhibition situates these works in a context naturally associated with books, while shifting attention from reading as content consumption to reading as an act of observation. The book becomes a visual object — something not simply read linearly, but navigated through attention, return, and comparison.
The participating artists approach illustration as an open system rather than a fixed category. Their works move between observation and construction, humour and abstraction, intimacy and distance. Some build narrative continuity, others operate through fragmentation, metaphor, or visual reduction, yet all treat the image as a space where thought can take visual form without requiring final closure.
The exhibition includes 28 books and 28 original illustration sheets by 14 Polish artists. This structure allows the book to be experienced both as a complete narrative form and as a set of autonomous visual decisions, revealing how storytelling is distributed across image, sequence, and material form.
Spotlight on Polish Illustration ultimately proposes understanding illustration as a space of continuous translation — between image and narrative, artist and reader, structure and intuition, intimacy and publication, tradition and experimentation. It is not a presentation of a closed body of works, but an attempt to capture a moment in which illustration becomes a process of thinking: visual, relational, and open-ended.
It is an invitation into a field where drawing does not illustrate pre-existing content but co-creates it; where the book does not merely organise images but generates meaning; and where story does not precede image, but emerges alongside it — in an ongoing act of visual negotiation.
展覽資訊
展覽名稱｜《Spotlight ─ 波蘭兒童插畫的狂歡舞台》Spotlight on Polish Illustration
展覽地點｜不只是圖書館 (松山文創園區 W104)
展覽期間｜2026.07.14（二）-2026.09.20（日）
開放時間｜10:00 – 18:00（每週一休館）
展覽票價｜100元 / 80元（團體票）/ 免費（優待票）
主辦單位｜波蘭插畫家協會、密茨凱維奇學院
共同主辦單位｜經濟部產業發展署
執行單位｜台灣設計研究院
策展人｜Patryk Hardziej
Exhibition Info
Venue｜Not Just Library, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Dates｜14 July, 2026 (Tue) – 22 September, 2026 (Sun)
Time｜ 10:00 – 18:00 (Last ticket entry at 17:30, closed on Mondays)
Admission｜NT$100 / NT$80 (for groups of 10 or more) / Free admission for eligible concession holders
Organizers｜Society of Polish Illustrators, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Co-organizer｜Industrial Development Administration, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Executive Organizer｜Taiwan Design Research Institute
Curator｜Patryk Hardziej
