EXHIBITION ATLAS OF MEMORY – 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOLIDARITY

OVO GRĄBCZEWSCY ARCHITEKCI
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Educational
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Poland
Company Name
OVO GRĄBCZEWSCY ARCHITEKCI
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Project Team
Multimedia installations:tajnyprojektPhotos of the building: Radoslaw Każmierczak
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Project Name:
EXHIBITION ATLAS OF MEMORY – 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOLIDARITY
Company Country:
Poland
Project Country:
POLAND
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Project Category:
Educational
Project Area:
72
Completion Date:
20210630
Project overview
The idea of the exhibition shows the rise of Solidarity by referring to 4 unique moments in the union’s history, namely the signing of the 4 August Agreements in Gdansk, Szczecin, Jastrzêbie-Zdrój and D±browa Górnicza (Huta Katowice). The exhibition will be shown in various places, hence the idea to realize it in the mobile form of 4 containers, which are additionally connected to each other by means of platforms – colonnades – transported with or in them. The industrial character of these elements refers to the shipyards, steel mills, mines and factories where free trade unions were born.
Project history
The interiors of the containers tell the story of Solidarity, shown through multimedia impressions, projections, graphics). Each container has an interior made of steel, but each time it is a different steel, referring to the character of the place/city to which the container is dedicated – rusted like abandoned ship’s plates, raw, stainless or painted black like coal. The exhibition space always consists of a main element – a multimedia art installation dedicated to a given agreement and a complementary structure consisting of spatial pixels – cubic information units. A very important element of the exhibition is also the whole composition created from the containers, platforms connecting them – colonnades, and a ramp that allows access to the roof of the containers, where green terraces will be arranged. A public space is created between the containers and on their roofs, which can be used as a place for outdoor exhibition, lectures, concerts, or rest and play, especially for children.In this way, we show that the struggle against totalitarianism, which began in large industrial plants with workers’ strikes, led to the creation of a new democratic society, whose values we can all benefit from and co-create.