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Patrycja Plich

The topologies of totality

Text installation, 12 texts pieces, 2019

The project in process is a reference to the history of Karazin University as an architectural assumption, its character of construction and functioning structure. The centrifugal point is the main hall located on the ground floor of the building. Its mirror construction (two identical parts located on two sides of the main entrance) is a space to reflect on the duality of perception. As a space between, a transient and temporary place, associated with movement but also waiting, led me to reflect on the importance of how the building stores information. The history of the University is not a history of walls, as architecture it retains its function, it is a refuge for the science. I am interested in stories of people, a direct meeting, and even a minimal influence on people passing by this space.

Conducting research and observations of this space, I am not able to directly communicate with everyone, so I leave a fraction of what I have come up to so far, I create contact, the possibility of distorting the common use of this space.

The title of the project indicates interest in the issue of totality, a view of all changes and processes occurring in this space. My interests concern how architecture determines the way of being in it. The modernist assumption of the structure became the starting point. The text is in places that I considered the least tamed by passers-by, are slightly hidden and not obvious. The text itself in a metaphorical way speaks about our behaviors of staying in different spaces. Starting from the meaning of Ukraine as a place to which I regularly come and to which I naturally got involved through the meaning of the text. Carrying out research on the Slovo Building and a project at the Zakarpattia Hotel in Uzghorod, each time dealing with the meaning of word and architecture, Karazin University has become another reference point for working with writing in the context of being in the space. Other references appearing in the text are the motif of the written word itself, how we remember it, how we combine it with spatial memory. The text is also basically an auto-narrative representation of my initial inquiry process.

The project assumes the continuation, at the level of text development as well as the very study of the contexts of Ukrainian architecture.

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