Style umierania. Projektowanie i fotografowanie przestrzeni symbolicznej parku Grabiszyńskiego we Wrocławiu

Michał Jakubowicz

Abstract

Substantial part of the article is formed by photographs with captions underneath and an annex which combined create a more detailed context for the photographs. The pictures present Wrocław Grabiszyn Park, located in the area of former German cemetery. The essential theme of the photographs is formed by differences stemming from the relations that occur among the objects of public and sacral art which may be found within the park, as well as places of rest, leisure, sport, fun and vivid nature. The space of this park is presented in the annex as a reflection of “apparatus”-a public apparatus, whose mechanisms of daily life and nature symbolism enable observation of some unique images characterizing the above space, being the subject of the art project subPark, but also becoming independent within the social-cultural meta-narration concerning the so called styles, that is methods of assimilation by inhabitants of Wrocław of death of something ‘alien’, ‘foreign’.