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Aleksandra Cieślewicz
The Floor, 2016
Found objects, wood, MDF board, light,
four-chanel sound installation

The installation is an analysis of a process which was happening unnoticed for 100 years in one of residential buildings in Poznań. Furniture designs by my grandfather incidentally discovered between floor boards and linoleum registered the traces of history of the family, the flat, Polish design and also political and social conditions which took place in Poland in XX century. Indexical signs pressed onto the paper, for me constitute an extension to traditional graphic methods. Paradoxically it was the floor that took over the role of matrix and steps of people walking on it became a sui generis press. The installation exposing the graphical objects created in this manner was completed with stories narrating the past events from four different perspectives.


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