Anna Królikiewicz [Poland]

“Absolutes” | smell installation

venue: GGM 2, 13/15 Powroźnicza Str.
In cooperation with the chemical laboratory I will create three scents that will be sprayed by water atomizers in three empty rooms of GGM 2 and its annex on Powroznicza street. Fragrances will have an impact on viewers passing by in the darkness via the phenomenon of synaesthesia, which is a one sense stimulus that triggers involuntary and automatic simultaneous impression in two or more senses (eg. visual and audio experience – seeing color).

Referring to the fact that up to the mid XIX century Długie Ogrody were a marketplace, I would like to create a strong sensory illusion of being close to a harbor and an abundance of fresh fish, peaches bursting with juice, spices imported on ships from Asia, flowers in bloom and decay as they`re being sold depending on time of the day.

My aim is to build a fantasy in the single person`s imagination, an illusion not only sensual, but also as a specific delusion since no one living today could have walked in the Długie Ogrody market, when it still existed here back in the day. Centuries of intersecting history layers and seeping into various veins of Gdansk are still present in the air, architecture and water. I am to dig them out of the ground, bring those images out of the deepest memory, confront them with reality and give them new meaning. Make the unearthing delightful.

Anna Królikiewicz

 

 

Anna Królikiewicz graduated from the Painting Faculty at the Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk, where, since her PHD she`s been the head of Fourth Drawing Workshop. She is dedicated to monumental drawing and installation, she sometimes writes. Anna exhibited, among others. in New York, Istanbul, Ankara, Koln, Brussels, abandoned butcher`s in Sopot, dining room at the Carthusian monastery and in Oliva forest. She received numerous awards for artistic and educational achievements. She concentrates on issues related to physicality and fragility of memory, recent works are affected by a numer of physiological issues such as taste and synaesthesia. Food (and its taste, color, smell, texture, sound and temperature) came as a subject to her three years ago, as a fascinating way to continue the creative path she`s been going for the past 20 years. What she presents is a table full of wonders and ponders on waste disposal and covering evidence of past feasts. That`s the medium she uses. She loves to feed.