2025
site-specific

For NARRACJE, Zuza Golińska and Trin Alt enter a hospital space that has, to some extent, remained untouched. In their joint site-specific project Room Number, they address illness-related isolation, weakened immunity and the institutionalisation of medicine.

The objects created by the artists become characters performing their roles. Drawing on experiences typical of hospitalised patients – isolation, loneliness and a distorted, fragmented perception of time – the artists focus on the emotions of individuals confined to isolation. Golińska and Alt also highlight the invisible aspect of infection: within the hospital environment, everyday objects may become potential sources of threat.

The two artists developed their works in parallel, creating a symbolic dialogue between them. Golińska works with stainless steel – a material commonly found in public spaces, particularly in environments that demand high standards of hygiene. Her spatial interventions emerge from functional objects, emphasising the disciplinary nature of public institutions. To be a patient means to submit to a set of rules, and the spatial arrangement often serves to control the bodies within it.

Alt, working at the intersection of sculpture, painting and assemblage, explores the relationship between patients and the inanimate objects typically found in hospital rooms. Cutlery, duvets, furniture and a few personal belongings acquire emotional significance – especially when one is forced to live in a temporary, shared space.

trigger warning: the project is located in a hospital

TRIN ALT is an interdisciplinary artist from Slovenia, currently studying in the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He works primarily with drawing and painting, often arranged within spatial settings. In his practice, Trin analyses everyday objects and the extent to which they structure and challenge our identity and gender. He questions consumerism by assigning significance to marginal objects devoid of status. In his most recent works, cutlery, a screw or a button acquire new importance and become symbols of daily existence. Trin lives and works in Vienna and Prague.

ZUZA GOLIŃSKA is a multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her practice focuses on exploring the influence of architecture and public space on human beings. Through art, she seeks to answer how the psychology of space, in an age of civilisational acceleration and late capitalism, affects the physical and mental condition of the individual. In her work, Golińska often disrupts the clear division between the functional and the aesthetic, examining how spatial forms act upon the emotions and decisions of their users.