A Permanent Rainbow Over Warsaw
An interactive public installation, a multi-hued array of 16, 000 fake flowers on a 9 meter tall and 26 meter wide metal railing - the Rainbow on Plac Zbawiciela is "here for your freedom and ours"
Conceptualized by Julita Wójcik and created with the help of volunteers from various professions - labourers, florists, doctors, artists the Rainbow aims to bring out tolerance, highlight the bright side and pay tribute to openness and optimism. The urban project was prepared for the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and will adorn Plac Zbawiciela for 3 months. Having stood in front of the European Parliament in Brussels during the Polish Presidency of the EU in late 2011, the Rainbow had to be refreshed with some 3,000 flowers which had been plucked from it in Brussels. In Febuary during workshops organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute at the Zacheta Gallery, together with Julita Wójcik, some 1000 people meticulously folded new flowers for the Rainbow.
For Julita Wójcik, in Warsaw the project brings a particularly optimistic message without any particular context but it coincides with a couple of events taking place Warsaw around the same time: the Pride Parade / Parada Równości on June 2nd, the Corpus Christi / Boże Ciało festvisties and the opening of the Euro 2012. "The Rainbow fits all occasions", the artist explains, "and therefore transmits my main message: that it doesn't stand for anything political or social, that it be completely free from any assigned meanings. Simply - that it be beautiful".
Julita Wójcik born in 1971 in Gdańsk - performer, author of art interventions and diving enthusiast. She lives and works in Gdańsk. In the years 1991-1997 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Faculty of Sculpture. By incorporating everyday activities in her projects she questions the boundaries between the spheres of life and art.
Sources: culture.pl
Editor: Marta Jazowska
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