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“In the space of the former office building at Ofiar Oświęcimskich 36 Street in Wrocław, on the initiative of private individuals and with the support of the Zobacz Mnie Foundation, temporary apartments are being arranged for refugees from Ukraine. About 200 people already live there. Alicja Kielan is the most recent in this set - an example of documentation which eludes the usually emotionless form of photo documentation from construction works sites. Unlike it is touching record of transforming commercial space into temporary apartments for Ukrainian war migrants. An additional context in Kielan's work is the building itself which has changed its purpose several times.
It had beed opened at the beginning of the XXth century as a department store, and than after the Kristallnacht in German Breslau it began to serve as an office building. After the II world war and the city incorporation into Poland, it changed its purpose into bank. Another war, this time in Ukraine, brought further transformation. It has just begun to be a place to live in - a home for the first time in its 100 years history”.

Paweł Bąkowski, curator of the Far-reaching consequences exhibition

2022 — 2024