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Monika Sosnowska
M10, 2004

Installation view: Other Than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, 2008
Photo: Michael Strasser, 2008 | © Bildrecht, Vienna, 2017
Installation view: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain, 2010
Photo: Reto Guntli
Installation view: Passages. Travels in Hyperspace. Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain, 2010
Photo: Marcos Morilla
Monika Sosnowska
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MDF, Wallpaper, carpet, pendant lights
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary


M10 is an architectural installation composed of several small rooms in which the artist carried ad absurdum the normative classifications of Polish apartments in socialist times. Although her work references Polish socialist architecture, Monika Sosnowska does not aim to directly translate it visually; she merely seeks for the work to speak of something more general and universal, which provokes certain emotional effects in the visitor. Using abstraction as her language, she leaves the visitor in a state of visceral confusion, located on the blurred border between physical and mental disorientation. A futile attempt to both represent and escape the system, which defines and dictates what private space can mean. In M10 the artist creates a spatial in-between, a space within a space that is separated as much from the logic of its inner world as from the outside.


*1972 in Ryki, Poland | Living and working in Warsaw, Poland