Habitat

9.12.2005 -29.01.2006

Curated by: Magdalena Lewoc, Marlena Chybowska-Butler

Habitat exhibition was based on the concept of place understood as a culturally structured environment in which meanings are established and actions carried out. In this sense, human habitat is a function of spatial, social, and personal relationships, played out on the intimate level in private, and in the collective sphere in public. Mutual feedbacks and energy exchanges take place between the subjects of the communities and the environments in which they function. Habitat’s visual-material structure is not exhausted in passive submissiveness towards the subject; rather, the emancipated ambience becomes a creative and corrective instrument. The ambivalent nature of these processes – the grid of tensions and interactions between the environment and its users – define the primary area of reference for the exhibition, which refers to the mutual relationships of private space – oikos as well as to that of public space – polis.

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Organisation: Museum of Contemporary Art, dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin

Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin