The Oxygenator

Joanna Rajkowska21th Century

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Warszawa, Poland

The film shows that in the case of this work, the very process of project implementation was as important as its result. The Oxygenator had the form of a social sculpture realized in the urban space of Warsaw in 2007. It was an artificial reservoir in the form of a 150 m² water hole, 1 meter deep, built on Plac Grzybowski, almost in the city center. Local residents called him a "lake" and received a much friendlier than Rajkowska's earlier object "grafted" in the urban tissue, i.e. Greetings from Aleje Jerozolimskie (2002) - the famous palm tree on de Gaulle Roundabout.
Oxygenator very quickly became an excuse to create new social rituals, a clear form of communication for the local community. He was to create a place that made being more comfortable together in a space marked by unprocessed trauma related to the ghetto tragedy, which was also located in this area.

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  • Title: The Oxygenator
  • Creator: Joanna Rajkowska
  • Date Created: 21th Century
  • Location Created: Warsaw, Poland
  • Physical Dimensions: mp4
  • Type: video
  • Art Genre: documentary
  • Art Movement: contemporary art
  • Depicted Topic: action social sculpture city history trauma
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art

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