A project at the Lasznia Contemporary Art Center in Gdansk, Poland, entitled “When a Neighbor is a Stranger.” Curator Agnieszka Kulazinska organized this public project using a former communist-era apartment building as a venue for artistic interventions.
Artists: Art Mesh (Kuba Budzyński, Monika Waraxa, Stephan Bourgeois), Krystian “Truth” Czaplicki, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Andres R. Londono, Andrea Mastrovito, Joshua Schwebel, Dominika SkutnikJustyna Wencel & Marcin Chomicki, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan),Karolina Chromczak, Helena Ganjalyan, Jan Lorys, Kamil Wawrzuta, Zuzanna Kasprzyk
Mastrovito created a site-specific work for the occasion, entitled Owsiana 1-3: the title refers to the exact address—complete with apartment number—of the old communist building at 1 Owsiana Street in Gdańsk, which was soon to be demolished.
To keep the memory of those historic spaces alive, Mastrovito redesigned the entire room of the apartment, copying the wallpaper and creating frottages of parts of the ceramic stove and wall.
Among the sheets, the silhouette of a cellist stood out in white, seen by the artist as a trace of the absence of tenants. Alfredo Piatti's Capriccio for Cello No. 3 resounded throughout the rest of the empty apartment.
Before the building was demolished, the work was entirely recovered and archived, in memory of a space and a time that no longer exist.