Photo © Alicja Ilkiewicz
Creative - NOMINEE: Alicja Ilkiewicz
New Athens
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We have built up our own “New Athens”. They were supposed to be for a while, for a few years and they last for decades.
About 12 million people live in “New Athens” in Poland. Everyone creates smaller or larger communities with more or less intimate relationships. Generations live in small cells called apartments, create their space, adapt it to their tastes and needs, are born in them and die.
What drives them, what are their dreams, what colour they like, whether they are number 42 or maybe Kaśka who does not love Paweł …
Words and pictures that tell their story:
ingenuity lack of freedom resourcefulness appropriation of space marking individualism auto-creation prison selecting your own space fear anxiety people - numbers people - bars people - floors need for order prison grating cold concrete glass door development ringtones keys locks devastation grey sadness views window view vegetation flower discomfort division tenants protection determination obsolete aesthetics need for order need for beauty danger noise cages screams child's cry love happiness green rug pink glow-tube how to survive?
About 12 million people live in “New Athens” in Poland. Everyone creates smaller or larger communities with more or less intimate relationships. Generations live in small cells called apartments, create their space, adapt it to their tastes and needs, are born in them and die.
What drives them, what are their dreams, what colour they like, whether they are number 42 or maybe Kaśka who does not love Paweł …
Words and pictures that tell their story:
ingenuity lack of freedom resourcefulness appropriation of space marking individualism auto-creation prison selecting your own space fear anxiety people - numbers people - bars people - floors need for order prison grating cold concrete glass door development ringtones keys locks devastation grey sadness views window view vegetation flower discomfort division tenants protection determination obsolete aesthetics need for order need for beauty danger noise cages screams child's cry love happiness green rug pink glow-tube how to survive?