36 Pokoi

36 Rooms exists between the traditions of short story and prose poetry, establishing an entirely singular atmosphere. Zuzanna Bartoszek’s work arises from personal experiences, but encodes its meanings through metaphor, venturing into dreamlike landscapes, synesthetically bound together by "something of a brick-red colour". Bartoszek abandons a linear plot, choosing an open and fragmentary form based on a series of associations and recurring motifs. Each reading reveals new connections between scattered clues. Drawing on the rhetorical device of ekphrasis, the author moves freely between literature and painting—her own and that of artists from her circle—fusing distinct arts into a sensory system.