Laura Grudniewska
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Architecture-taming
16.06.2016
Architecture enforces a choreography of movements and thus it is an element that organizes daily life. In other words, it generates movement and supresses it simultaneously; everything becomes obedient to its rules. In the scope of bio-political thinking, architecture can be compared to a case for a body.
In my work I change the inanimate case into a living body. In order to achieve that Iuse a group of horses which are of a great significance in architecture. This symbolictransfer of the quadriga to the inside of the bulding is a beginning of a transposition.An element of nature which used to accelerate building degradation, now contributesto the rebirth of space. The place in which I intervene has got an industrial origin.While it used to be lively and vibrat with machine noise, now it came to a standstill.
Before its transformation, the Car Factory used to be a buoyant center of the Polish heavy industry. Yet, now it is a blank space on the map of Warsaw. Therefore, I decided to reactivate this space at least in a symbolic way. Because of the muscles of the horses from the quadriga, the heart of the factory will start beating again. The horsepower unit of mesurement will be distorted as imitations of real horses will replace mechanical horses and the repetitive sound of factory machines will be replaced with the rhytmical sound of hooves.