Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam
Bulk
2021
Performative interventions in Polish
housing estates, photography, sculp-
tural interpretations
The urban fabric shapes bodies,
influencing how they move, inhabit,
and respond to space. Architectural
remnants of post-communist hous-
ing estates, metal rods, playground
structures, worn surfaces, carry traces
of past tensions, structuring behaviour
and producing a dialogue between
body and environment.
Through embodied engagement, the
body is placed within these elements
as a testing ground, entering states of
friction, pressure, and alignment with
architectural forms. Contact, resistance,
and repetition operate as methods
through which the city inscribes itself
onto the body, while bodily presence
simultaneously shifts the perception
and organisation of space.