NIGHTMARE TURNED INTO A DREAM
14.2 x 3.2m
site specific installation, printed microscopic images of Biopatina on canvas, metal frames, 2022
14.2 x 3.2m
Contrary to contemporary discourse that perceives naturally
occurring stains on building’s surfaces as undesirable, this installation attempts to support rather than suppress organic growth on the
outer sking of architectures. This project emphasizes that Biopatina
and the surface it inhabits must be described and treated as separable
organisms. And this is also why the project is built in a way to bring
Biopatina right up close to their environment where they thrive - on
the walls of Vltavska.
A nightmare
transformed into a dream, just like the constantly forming, unwanted
and suppressed layer of Biopatina on the staircase of Vltavská...
The project expands from the Vltavská site
and imagines the adjacent Prague highway as a habitat for Biopatina, using the dewy surface of the roadwork to eliminate its negative
impacts on the local ecosystem. The provocative idea of transforming the otherwise passive surfaces of the highway into active ones
becomes a provocation in the form of a utopia - the transformation
of an infra-structural work into a meta-structural one.