Katarzyna Krakowiak
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The Pavement / Scale
http://krakowiak.hmfactory.com
22.09.2006
The Pavement
I transferred a fragment of a street into 45-square-meter room; I lled it with the agstones (I took part of the pavement out) to get the impression that the street drove impetuously into the building. Space opened and linked directly with the pavement formed a passage to the next tenement. I layered the paving on the inatable mattresses and thick black rubber. It starts to exist within the rst step of the viewer; it absorbs the viewer. The stones rub against one another making noises as it were the words of amazement of the people who had been walking on the pavement before. Loss of stability, metaphor of modern mentality depicting fragile construction and loss of identity, loss of one's roots and loss of a place.
Scale
Numbers depict our life: phone numbers, PIN codes, PUK codes, clothes sizes, and
numbers of the tickets.
When, where, how much? They all serve certain functions, but then they disappear.
I constructed a scale that tots up kilos, but it does not show singular weight, but only
their total sum. I placed the scale in the threshold, in a built-in platform so the scale
would take a record of every passage, entrance or exit, every change. And a total result
was projected on the wall. The moment when the scale makes a person an abstract
number, singularity is lost. One experiences being a mass. The score does not built the
statistics, was nothing more than just a proof of existence, a moment of causing
tension in time.