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Just next to the Spectra building lies Panorama – the oldest shopping mall in Warsaw. Constructed in 1993, its years of splendour are already gone. This is a ghost space, where half of the units are closed and the rest run, so to say, reluctantly. Time has frozen here.

There is a vast car park in front of the facility. A metal post and a concrete ball are installed alternately along the car park’s boundary. These objects structure the space together but at the same time keep distance from each other. Starting with these figures, I’ve decided to build a symbolic family of products and to stage their display. The installation will become an imagined shop window containing sculptures alluding to items of street furniture – remnants of the past, and photographs – extracts from the reality, complementing each segment.

Piotr Kowalski

Piotr Kowalski - lives and works in Warsaw. Student of a Master’s programme at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Interested in what is going on where the city and the nature meet. Works mainly on an object and sculpture basis, examining the influence of space and the infrastructure contained therein on human behaviour. Selected collective exhibitions: Widokówka [Postcard], 2021, Wziemia Gallery; Sandra w trawie [Sandra in Grass], 2020, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art; Rajski student śpi z człowiekiem w grobie [Paradise Student Sleeps with a Human in a Grave], 2020, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw; A komu to potrzebne? [Who needs that anyway?], 2019, Spokojna Gallery; Piasek jest w porządku, a ziemia to nic miłego [Sand is OK and Earth is Nothing Pleasant], 2018, Sinfonia Varsovia; Paleolit [Palaeolithic], 2018, Konsulat Praettigau gallery.