Paweł Janczaruk

Icarus' Wing
installation, isography on window and two objects, 2020

An abandoned Wytwórnia Win [Wine Manufacture] warehouse, adapted for a gallery. Shabby walls, a concrete floor, a tin door. Very cold, but it was, actually, winter. An enormous US flag painted on a wall, blue garbage bags and bikes stuck to the ceiling. Clothes in the bags. A whole lot of clothes. Visible through the see-through bags. Between them, bikes, whole or in parts. Unpleasant cold light. Year 2004.

Heat, the sunlight rather merciless. A brown coal opencast mine. An enormous hole in the ground extending to the horizon. An excavation, on the edge of which a large ramp made with wooden logs. All this resembling a tower that used to stand on the excavation edge and collapsed. But maybe it is a planking of an adit leading deep into the slope of the excavation. Year 1991.

A wardrobe, a small table, a bedside table. Placed on top of the others. On top of all this, a chair, maybe two, a cupboard beside. Arranged on top of themselves, without a rhyme or reason. A shelf, a stool, an armchair, a sofa. I do not remember this set of furniture well. Clothes as well might have been there, or stacked materials. Sheets, maybe curtains, contours. All this as if someone had moved out and trashed it all. Year 1985.