The two works, Condemnation and Assumption, have been presented at an exhibition of the artist Opowie?ci zwi?z?e [Concise Stories] at Galeria Arsena? in Bia?ystok (2007). The idea of the presentation originated from the words of Michel Houellebecq, assigning an eschatological dimension to the exhibition, who claimed that the story of a human life can be as long or as short as one wishes it to be. The metaphysical or the tragic option, which is limited, after all, to the dates of birth and death traditionally inscribed on tombstones, has the obvious asset of being extraordinarily concise.*