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Dizziness

YEAR
2017

CLIENT
CSW U-jazdowski

LOCATION
Warsaw, PL

PROGRAM
exhibition design

AREA
915 sqm

STATUS
built

TEAM
Budcud: Mateusz Adamczyk, Agata Woźniczka (authors), Anna Eckes, Aleksandra Krupa, Lea Moureau

PHOTOS
Bartosz Górka

Dizziness

‘Dizziness. Navigating the Unknown’ exhibition in CSW U-jazdowski could get your head spinning! Everyday reports of crisis send us into a state of frenzy, whether real or fictional. The ensuing dizziness can clear, cause a great stir, move heaven and earth – it simply destabilizes. And yet, as the artistic research on Dizziness – A Resource proposed, dizziness could also be seen as providing momentum for creative thinking and activity.

Artists, whose work was shown on the exhibition, left the established to seek other states of consciousness. They lured the audience into a confrontation with their own convictions.

With Ólafur Elíasson’s ‘Trust compass’ guiding the way back.

‘Dizziness’ spatial arrangement intensifies the feeling of destabilization by elevating new exhibition walls above the floor and using reflective materials such as steel, mirror or latex. Their textures and compositions distort the reflection and establish an illusory exhibition space, where the artworks would orbit and roam. Differentiated means were used to boost the dizziness experience.

(PL) Aranżacja wystawy wzmacnia uczucie destabilizacji poprzez podniesienie nowych ścian ekspozycyjnych ponad posadzkę galerii oraz użycie odbijających materiałów – stali, luster czy lateksu. Ich tekstury i układy zniekształcają odbicia, budując iluzoryczną przestrzeń wystawy. W pomieszczeniach z projekcjami wideo ściany pomalowano na kolor niebieski po to, by wzmocnić świecenie ekranu i „rozmyć” krawędzie pomieszczenia.

For instance, all the projection rooms were painted deep blue to emphasize a distinctive blue video glare and dissolve spatial contours. At the end of ‘Dizziness’ exhibition its wall color fades to white, enabling the effective usage of exhibition’s research library. Its furniture also follows the exhibition’s motif – the book table is levitating, suspended from a ceiling on steel ropes.