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(Sorrow) Allusion Blind

an interactive installation (can be opened and closed), re-used window blind, spray paint, 2,60 x 3,70 m, 2017

 

 

“(Sorrow) Allusion Blind” is one of my responses to, and an illustration of deep collective needs of inhabitants of Szczepin (a quarter of Wroclaw, Poland) that I mapped out during second edition of “What can I make for you?” project.

 

I conducted a series of interviews with Szczepin inhabitants asking questions related to their needs, expectations, relations and desires. The most commonly expressed ones turned out to be: a sense of a community – collaboration, openness and kindness towards each other.

 

Even though Szczepinian’s collective needs can be summarized by “I want to live among kindness and beauty” (quotation of one of responders) they were mostly expressed in a form of grudges, grievances and strong feelings of injustice.

 

Some of theirs statements can be found on “(Sorrow) Allusion Blind”, when it’s closed.
They create a peculiar “smokescreen” hindering the possibility of uncovering and living by theirs deepest needs.

 

Opening the “(Sorrow) Allusion Blind”, symbolically brushes the physical and emotional barrier aside. It lets the light to fill the limitless space. It allows a direct contact, free passage and exchange. Similarly while opening the window blinds, we let ourselves to see and to be seen as well, analogously – when we close the window blinds, we clam up, separate ourselves from “others” and from what’s to be seen “outside”.

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an interactive installation (can be opened and closed), re-used window blind, spray paint, 2,60 x 3,70 m, 2017

 

 

“(Sorrow) Allusion Blind” is one of my responses to, and an illustration of deep collective needs of inhabitants of Szczepin (a quarter of Wroclaw, Poland) that I mapped out during second edition of “What can I make for you?” project.

 

I conducted a series of interviews with Szczepin inhabitants asking questions related to their needs, expectations, relations and desires. The most commonly expressed ones turned out to be: a sense of a community – collaboration, openness and kindness towards each other.

 

Even though Szczepinian’s collective needs can be summarized by “I want to live among kindness and beauty” (quotation of one of responders) they were mostly expressed in a form of grudges, grievances and strong feelings of injustice.

 

Some of theirs statements can be found on “(Sorrow) Allusion Blind”, when it’s closed.
They create a peculiar “smokescreen” hindering the possibility of uncovering and living by theirs deepest needs.

 

Opening the “(Sorrow) Allusion Blind”, symbolically brushes the physical and emotional barrier aside. It lets the light to fill the limitless space. It allows a direct contact, free passage and exchange. Similarly while opening the window blinds, we let ourselves to see and to be seen as well, analogously – when we close the window blinds, we clam up, separate ourselves from “others” and from what’s to be seen “outside”.

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