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"Quarantena" & other texts

2014, Miasto. Stan Zapalny / City. Inflammatory State [catalogue of the "Survival 12. Art Review"]

The former building of the Faculty of Pharmacy became an exhibition space, a place full of experiments and magical gestures that emphasised the character of the venue and led to its resurrection. The invited artists reconstructed the laboratories and redefined the very conception of an institution that teaches the ‘alchemy’ of drugs. This place was hedged around with specific rules and etiquette that lay far away from the customary perception of the everyday.