Taras Gembik
The Infinite Now
In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery. Through stark winter evenings and quiet conversations, Gembik's verses explore ancient and universal questions of existence and identity: the nature of God, the comfort of walls and communion with others, the circular path of memory. The collection transforms everyday moments into profound reflections on love, displacement, how to build community, and the possibility of finding home in transience.
Taras Gembik (b. Kamin-Kashyrskyi, 1996) is a poet, curator, performer, and activist. He is the curator of the public programme at Zachęta National Gallery of Warsaw, where in 2024 he also curated, together with Joanna Kordjak, Siergiej Parajanov’s retrospective. Since 2018, he has worked with the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw to provide a platform for refugees and those afflicted by the homelessness crisis. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he co-created the Sunflower Solidarity Community Centre, praised in an extensive profile in Frieze Magazine, as part of a dossier on ‘Forms of Resistance’.
He has performed at the Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw, 2021), Galeria Bielska BWA (Bielsko-Biała, 2022), and Cell Project Space (London, 2023), and the Osaka Kansai International Art Festival (2023). Gembik’s curatorial and community work has been recognised by the European Cultural Foundation.