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 "1:1" at the Shaulager, Basle April 26 to September 21, 2008 Monica Sosnowska was born in 1972 in Ryki, Poland; she represented Poland at the Venice Biennale in 2003 where she presented "1:1" for the first time. "1:1" stands as the consequence of a reflection on the post-war architectural concepts analysed from the angle of the local, Eastern European, surprisingly vital mutation of the International Movement. During the People's Poland era, progress was often restricted to impulsive, rash (and often absurdity-producing) modernisation. The requirement of "modernity" in post-war Poland was a top-down imposed decision, controlled through a series of orders. The work on show from April 26 to September 21 illustrates the latest project, carried out in 2007 at the Schaulager. Monika Sosnowska studies architecture from the point of view of its failures, she is interested in places encumbered with error, non-functional. Her works are often peculiar mementos of architectural utopias brought out from the past, inspired by architecture's psychedelic properties. The main reference point for Sosnowska are the experiences of post-war modernisation - the all-too-familiar to the inhabitants of Eastern Europe landscape of housing blocks, service pavilions, train stations and shopping centres.Born as a “container” (the building is by Herzog & de Meuron) for housing the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation’s contemporary art collection, it makes the works permanently accessible to visitors and academics. Each year it also exhibits the results of a research project.
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  "1:1" at the Venice Biennale, Polish Pavilon, June 10 - November 21, 2007 "It seems to me that what I do is somehow in opposition to what architecture stands for. I also think that my art is a completely different discipline, even though I focus on the same problems as architecture does: the forming of space. Utilitarianism is architecture's fundamental attribute. My works introduce chaos and uncertainty instead" Monica Sosnowska |
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