According to a duo of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the form of the industrial construction is determined only by its function. The designing logic of the architecture in the concentration camp Auschwitz was, that the forms of the buildings were absolutely subordinated to their function as instruments of the...
Bartłomiej Ponikiewski: Movie Theatres
The project documents objects of classic cinemas in Poland. It's just a seemingly repetitive places. The individual character of the cinema is evident especially when we look from the screen towards the audience. This is a rarely recognizable perspective, primarily because the cinema interior is a spectacle experienced in a...
Denis Esakov: This is Not a Tower
The story is old: iconic objects crumble into dust or, at best, provide a suitable background for selfies. One dramatic fall from grace has been particularly striking: the shift from tower—a dominant presence in the cityscape asserting supremacy of the modernist idea over man—to “gray concrete box”, from icon to...