Aleksandra Ciapka, Filip Ignatowicz [Poland]

“there was a roof, there was a home” | installation

venue: garbage at Krowoderska Str.

“there was a roof, there was a home” is a project based on the juxtaposition of two contradictory spaces: private and public. We refer to the memories of warmth and splendor that we identify with a house and try to rediscover them. Shelter over neighborhood dumpster will be transformed into a house, filled with visual stories and records of daily conversations. Through this treatment we want to examine what separates private from public, and for a while even break the last one apart. The Długie Ogrody area remains an unexplored enclave, full of empty properties and picturesque ruins, that force us to think about absence. And that absence, shortage, can be interpreted as the beginning of a story yet untold. This beginning we will try to constitute.

 

Aleksandra Ciapka, born in Gdansk, is a student of interior architecture at Gdansk Academy of Fine Arts with particular interest in set design and fashion design. She is a graduate of the International School of Costume and Fashion Design in Warsaw, a finalist of NEW LOOK DESIGN (showed her own collection) during WARSAW FASHION STREET 2012. She works with Tri-City off theatres, and takes her first steps as a set designer in independent film productions.

Filip Ignatowicz, born in Gdansk, studies painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. In its work he is not limited to painting and drawing but he also creates performance, happenings and installations in public space, photography and video, short films and animation so a very broad range of visual art. He participates in a variety of artistic projects and research, recently started exploring visuals and video- stage design for theatre.
http://www.filipignatowicz.com/