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Monika Sosnowska

M10, 2004

MDF, Wallpaper, carpet, pendant lights
250 x 519 x 490 cm

M10 is an architectural installation composed of several small rooms in which the artist carried ad absurdum the normative classifications of Polish apartments in socialist times. Although her work references Polish socialist architecture, Monika Sosnowska doesn’t aim to directly translate it visually; she merely seeks for the work to speak of something more general and universal, which provokes certain emotional effects in the visitor. Using abstraction as her language, she leaves the visitor in a state of visceral confusion, located on the blurred border between physical and mental disorientation—a futile attempt to both represent and escape the system, which defines and dictates what private space can mean. In M10 the artist creates a spatial in-between, a space within a space that is separated as much from the logic of its inner world as from the outside.

*1972 Ryki, Poland