The waiting room she prepared for the next Design Festival in Eindhoven was based on a similar intuitional concept. This time Bołoz defined the separate space by the use of irregular blobs of colour and a few cubes that allowed passers-by to engage with them in various ways.
The idea of blocks and cubes being scaled up is something Bołoz also used in another one of her installations – Stairway in Copenhagen. In this temporary project, the artist plays with the idea of a staircase, transforming it into a colourful, dreamlike experience. These intensely-coloured blue stairs do not lead to anywhere specific – they are designed on ground level and gradually lead upwards onto the wall as if to reach the sky. The installation allows users to sit, walk on it, climb on it, and yet remains a poetic interpretation of an object as trivial as stairs.
Bołoz moves smoothly in the world of shadows. Ever since 2011, she has approached this subject from a new perspective each time. She is interested in the unpredictability of shadows, their spontaneous appearance in public spaces, and their presence, which is so often overlooked by passers-by. She frequently takes what is neglected as the starting point of her interventions, and tries to give shadows an important role in the urban tissue. She uses them to send out subtle, poetic messages.
In the Eindhoven installation, she combines what is transient and elusive, working with shadows and the theme of expectation. It is not a coincidence that she placed her installation Shadow Messages at the main train station, engaging passengers waiting on the platforms. She uses common elements like words written on platforms, along with the moving sunlight, which reveals the letter's shadows, creating short poetic messages such as ‘Caress the Ray’, ‘Shadow Play’ or ‘Search the Sun’.
Shadow City from 2013 is a game of city symbols. Bołoz tells the history of the city – again by using shadows – on a hundred-metre wall by a lake. Several dozen icons attached to the wall cast shadows that are determined by the moving sun. Bołoz grants fish, houses and butterflies the opportunity to dance, bend and break according to the sun’s will.