is a walking sound installation for audio-guide, lying dormant within the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw (MSN Warszawa), which can be awakened when someone recognises its presence and summons it. Using various nooks in the magnificent building of the MSN Warszawa as the backdrop to the path revealing hidden narratives, the work ultimately appeals for a change in perspective in the audience, by seeing above and beyond the surface of things.
Mettā, meaning benevolence, good will, or simply love in Pali, is a concept drawn from Buddhism (one of the ‘four sublime states’). Morphosis, deriving from Ancient Greek, refers to ‘development in an organism or one of its parts through structural change’. Embodying the meaning of this contemporary compound neologism in the title, the piece invites and guides the listener to potential, alternative ways to experiencing the museum: without expectation and judgement; in its pure form; take it for what it is or ‘may be’. Extending from this, we can possibly conceive of meeting the whole world with all its inhabitants a little differently: in a transformed way seen through love.
Commissioned by The Wapping Project, co-commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, for the festival Sonics & Scenics, supported by the British Council through UK/Poland Season 2025.
Featuring song ‘Caritas Habundat’ by Hildegard Von Bingen
Polish version voiced by Agnieszka Olek
Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej
w Warszawie (MSN) /
Museum of Modern Art Warsaw
view teaser (Instagram reel)
Image by Thomas Zanon-Larcher