Morus Project





Revealing What is Partly Sensed, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow

14.05.2025 – 31.08.2025








Soothing as Shelter is an artwork created by the Morus Project collective in cooperation with the curator Elli Leventaki, as part of Greece’s partnership in the Three Seas Initiative, along with several other European countries. In this context, they represent the Athens School of Fine Arts at the first edition of the Three Seas Art Festival, which is envisioned in the form of a biennale and will take place every other year in a different partner country. The artwork was exhibited in the group exhibition Revealing What is Partly Sensed in Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow.

In Soothing as Shelter, the Morus Project’s teamwork and methodology are embodied in an installation featuring three handcrafted elements: a silk fabric, a publication, and a ceramic teapot with tea bags. The curved silk fabric, created collaboratively as artists passed it along and added to it, symbolizes the intertwined nature of their work and forms a cocoon-like space that offers visitors privacy and an opportunity for introspection. The tea is made from mulberry leaves, which are the silkworms’ primary food, while the accompanying publication that is embedded in the installation captures the project’s research, creative process, and curatorial approach. Additionally, there are QR codes placed at the mulberry trees of the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University, forming a conceptual connection with the Bunkier Sztuki Gallery. Overall, the installation links Poland’s rich textile heritage with Greece’s long tradition of sericulture, inviting people to slow down, find shelter, and reconnect with nature through art.
– Elli Leventaki
Installation view

Mulberry tree in the Botanical Garden of the Jagiellonian University, November 2024























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