Dormant
2021
The „Dormant” project is a site - specific installation, in which I stitched together household materials such as bed sheets and curtains to create a sheet several meters long. By using it, I covered a house that belonged to my great-grandparents in the past. and then I sewed it inside the fabric.
Work is related to memory and family traumas passed down through generations. This action aims to symbolically cut off and end the cycle of inheriting collective anxiety. The house here is a total and cosmogonic space, by influencing it I affect
a wide psychological spectrum of myself and my family.
a wide psychological spectrum of myself and my family.
A lullaby I composed for the house is also part of the work.
Its harmony is deliberately gently disrupted, it has three layers of chorus, which changes just like the tinting of the sound. I imagine that this is how the specters inhabiting my great-grandparents’ house sound.
The project in a later proposal for realisation was conceived as a breathing tent created from the sheets used to drape my house. Arranged on a purpose-built, self-supporting structure, they were meant to move and appear to breathe to the sounds of a specially composed lullaby by me.
Removing the ghostly materials from my great-grandparents’ house, I set them in motion and sing them a lullaby so that they remain asleep like little children. Everyone can enter the magic tent and leave their spirits there.
The project prototype was one of the finalist project selected for the II edition of the Chris Schwartz Award „Safe Space” in Galicia Jewish Museum, Cracow (PL).
3D visualisation: Michał Majdak
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3D visualisation: Michał Majdak
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