Fair Building

Fair Building, 2016, 5-channel video installation, film still. Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016.

The Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016 directly responds to biennale's theme – Reporting from the Front – by addressing the ethical issues facing one of the most underrepresented participants in architecture: the construction worker. Labour conditions, lack of respect and site accidents plague the industry worldwide but these difficulties often get overlooked in favour of deadlines, budgets and the public demand for new spaces. Curator Dominika Janicka, in cooperation with Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak, create a full-scale construction site inside the Polish Pavilion and ask the question – why don’t buildings come with fair trade marks?

Polish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura 2016

Fair Building
Curator: Dominika Janicka
Curatorial collaboration: Martyna Janicka and Michał Gdak

Polish Pavilion Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska
Deputy commissioner: Joanna Waśko

Organizer: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
pl. Małachowskiego 3
00-916 Warsaw, Poland