The art of Miroslaw Balka, probably the most celebrated Polish artist of his generation, is known throughout the world. Usually based on recollections of his home and childhood, it employs evocative images and materials to chart journeys within his personal landscape.

Balka's sculpture and images often draw their meaning from oppositions: life and death, presence and absence, dark and light, tragedy and humour. They are always poetic, and sometimes disturbing. His art is not conceptual, although it evokes and is sustained by ideas; Balka makes work to embody experiences that cannot adequately be expressed in words.

It has been said that Balka's art has much to do with loss and mourning. This exhibition, his first in Ireland, seems to justify that observation. Specially conceived for The Douglas Hde Gallery, many of his new pieces resonate with memories of home, journeys, and displacement. The writer and psychotherapist Adam Philips once remarked that it is the task of art to make the past bearably present, so that we can see the future through it. Balka's work does just that.

A catalogue, with text by John Hutchinson, accompanies the exhibition.