Seat in the shape of ‘I love’ inscription [PHOTOS]

The ceremony of unveiling the artistic installation (which also functions as a seat) aroused much interest among local inhabitants. After all, their backyard has become a part of the huge ECC project and art has found its place there. Before the idea for the development of this space was created, the artist had spent much time in local tenement houses. She had observed, watched and talked to inhabitants.

‘Among many offensive inscriptions that I watched in gates and staircases, I quite often came across the word “I love”,’ explains Elżbieta Jabłońska. Now inhabitants will be inspired by a 10 metres long seat arranged into an inscription ‘I love’ made of square blocks of architectural concrete. Ideal also as a place to sit and talk, it can be used successfully as a chessboard. In addition, the children have already found out that it is an excellent spot for jumping and tag games.

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Biography of the artist

Elżbieta Jabłońska engages in painting, drawing, graphic art, photography, installations and peformance activities. Her works are often called postfeminist by critics. She uses and transforms cultural stereotypes and clichés accompanying the concept of woman and womanhood and plays a witty, humorous and warm game with them. Tinted with humour and distance, Jabłońska’s projects are far from ad hoc journalism and demagogy that are typical features of engaged art. The artist simply helps us to notice what is usually invisible, hidden or difficult to accept in society.