Kręgosłup
18 October – 21 November 2010 at Galeria Studio, Palace of Culture, Warsaw
Patelnia, 2011/2012
18 October – 21 November 2010 at Galeria Studio, Palace of Culture, Warsaw
Sketch of the Movement Space inside the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw - the lifts:
In the middle of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, which marks the centre of the capital city, there is a system that shows similarities to the spinal column of the human body. In the midpoint of the palace tower are 12 elevator shafts in which people are transported daily to 43 floors. The work abstracts the space within the architecture of these elevators, a space which the people occupy and define over time through their usage of the moving lifts, getting in and out at the different floors. Dismembered in its seperate vertebrae, the spinal column is lying on the floor, as if an organ has been removed from the body and relieved of its normal function. And so, the observer has the chance to examine the spine with his own eyes.
Each individual in a city is creating his/her own movement space inside a huge pattern of a common urban structure that is written unconsciously into the collective memory. This Red Carpet shows the symmetrical ground plan of Plac Defilad and the Palace of Culture and Science in its middle in the centre of Warsaw. Built as a gift from the Soviet Union in socialist classicism from 1952 to 1955, many Poles have an ambivalent feeling to this place and building. The over-sized cut-out of the red carpet, that I have taken from the congress hall of the Palace of Culture and Science, relates how deeply the urban and temporal structure of the central square mark the city centre and how deeply its structure has been imprinted in the collective memory of Varsovian (from 1952 – 2016). Today, the Museum of Modern Art is being built here and changes the spatial impression enormously.
In the middle of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, which marks the centre of the capital city, there is a system that shows similarities to the spinal column of the human body. In the midpoint of the palace tower are 12 elevator shafts in which people are transported daily to 43 floors. The work abstracts the space within the architecture of these elevators, a space which the people occupy and define over time through their usage of the moving lifts, getting in and out at the different floors. Dismembered in its seperate vertebrae, the spinal column is lying on the floor, as if an organ has been removed from the body and relieved of its normal function. And so, the observer has the chance to examine the spine with his own eyes.
