Exhibition
Smagala Lucienne
11 Sep 2015 – 11 Oct 2015
Address
- 32 RUE BERTHE MOLLY
- Colmar
Alsace - 68000
- France
The exhibition is about a project inspired by the urban environment of Zielona Gora, a German city that became Polish after WWII.
About
The project was born in Poland, in a town rich in textile industrial past of XIX century in Zielona Gora, a German city, Grunberg became a Polish city after the war.
Over there I could accompany a team of construction specialists in their work transforming this industrial wasteland.
This transformation was through destruction, of chaos in order to take the new form - a place of -lofts homes and workplace for companies.
I could take pictures on site, pick up objects from the past, meet the workers and architects throughout this site ...
They were all very anxious to preserve every trace of the past of this former factory, its working memory as if these traces were "cement" to build a new Identitaire form of this exceptional site in the past and today.
The project was completed in France in Mulhouse through the history of another site architecture -Temple Saint Etienne, a site marked by the work of architects who built it but also by the patrons of the temple - the major textile manufacturers of Mulhouse and its region.
I found these two sites a symbol of the search for identity ... a symbol of identity mystery.
What we are doing exactly? What is our "glue" to us?
Who or what has marked us in our lives?
What are traces, marks?
What makes that our origins?