The starting point for my work was borderline, a personality disorder I have struggled with for seven years. But the collision with the space marginalized my illness, bringing forward the emotionality of the space.
The exhibition space was a corridor and (partially) a staircase, a liminal area meant to stitch neighboring places together. The sounds propagate along its walls, carry us across the space they fully possess, and even intend to protrude to the exterior.
I believe sound is a medium that most fully claims the space it propagates into. Because of that, I took things a step further and used surround sound, which envelops the spectator, becoming even more oppressive. I think that hearing is the sense that relates the most to the feeling of anxiety. It works even while one’s sight fails. While staying in a certain space, one cannot escape a sound propagating in there.
REVIEW
For Karo Zacharski, architecture becomes a tool for speaking, where private space becomes public. They talk about their personal space through architecture dedicated to transportation purposes.
Karo Zacharski deliberately uses the architectural context of the staircase, and in effect opens the place up with sound.
They listen closely to the air that enters through the ventilation duct at the bottom of the stairs, and transmits its sound upwards. We feel as if we were following the artist’s breath. This actual transmission of the sound from the bottom to the top of the stairs creates a touching, real, and, most importantly, everchanging framing device for this very mathematical and synthetic composition.
By their gesture of sending the air upwards, they emphasize their triumph over gravity. Hence we, the audience, are given the opportunity to take a break from the constant falling.
Karo Zacharski is aware that their audience is in transit. The composition has no beginning and no end - it is like a draft.
In a very detailed way, Karo Zacharski describes the strict procedure of building their composition. Every little adjustment to the audio modifiers is juxtaposed here with a detailed note about the author.
The scale used here is 1 to 1. The architecture is given a voice. As an artist, Karo Zacharski takes responsibility for it.
~ Katarzyna Krakowiak-Balka, Ph.D., MFA
SHOWN AT:
ICIA Festival at Cracow (2022)
3/5 - Best Diplomas from years 2021/2022 at Gallery -1, Czapski Palace, Warsaw (2022)
PBiP Diplomas at Faculty of New Media, Warsaw (2021)
SPECIAL THANKS:
promoter: Lukasz Kosela PhD
reviewer: Katarzyna Krakowiak-Balka PhD, MFA
technical support: Eidotech Polska
mgr Stefan Weglowski, Jan Lecki