Laura Grudniewska
Born in 1993 in Warsaw. Graduated from the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw. Earned her Master’s degree cum laude at Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities in 2016. Focuses on site-specific art, video, performance and painting. Laureate of the What is the situation? art review (Labirynt Gallery, 2017). Finalist of the Young Wolves - contest in 2015.
LAURA GRUDNIEWSKA
FIVE FEET HIGH
2019 / light installation
The installation is inspired by the architecture of the exhibition space. Fully aware that its function was far from sacral before, I commit a premeditated mystification and explicitly emphasize its false associations. I build an altar. The building centreline is crowned with a locum sacrum, a luminous niche. Entering the niche - one replaces the idol and at the same time acquires a new perspective of the exhibition space – it becomes a ritual act attributed to the altar. By assuming this iconic stand of mastering the bigness (after: R. Koolhaas; Bigness or the problem of the Large) each viewer becomes an immanent part of the exhibition, fits into the object, complements the com- position. This gesture turns going through the building space into a series of experiences and the architecture itself becomes active. From darkness towards the light, through a change of perspective, to transgression.
