An overcoat, with a trilby hat, sits on a suitcase in an attitude of attentive waiting. Below the right lapel is the Star of David. But the occupant is missing. With this uncanny image, clearly inspired by the Belgium surrealist René Magritte, the artist suggests the layers of absence evoked in the film "Postcard from a Journey," directly by Waldemar Dziki. Set in Poland during the Second World War, the central character, a Jewish industrialist, anxiously anticipates the fate - deportation to the camps - that he feels must certainly overtake him. The film is based on the novel "Mr. Theodor Mundstock" (1963) by the Czech writer, Ladislav Fuks (1923-1994).

Krzysztof Bednarski was born in Cracow and studied sculpture with Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. During the 1970s, he was active in the milieu of the noted Polish experimental theater director and impresario Jerzy Grotowski, for whom the artist made several posters.