The installation was created as part of the exploration area “Urban Space * Immersion” launched in 2018, dealing with the subject of thinking about the modern city. The pretext for developing the project was the book by Italian writer Italo Calvino “Invisible Cities” (1972). Calvino takes us on an eventful journey into the impossible, imaginary empire, filled with free reflections on the multi-layered perception of the city. The structure of his work, its intricate structure, which the author himself compared to a polyhedron, is as important as the content. In the installation “Hypercity”, a glass cube with glass planes in the middle illustrates the interpenetration of directions and ways of interpreting the city, its complex structures. The cube is placed on a steel construction mounted above a horizontally set monitor displaying a tesseract animation. A hypercube – a four-dimensional solid goes beyond the 3 dimensions we know. Just like when reading a book, we delve into new spaces and areas of understanding the city. The whole is complemented by the projection of the tangle of planes onto the gallery walls, achieved thanks to the external illumination of the glass cube with point light. The room was filled with an abstract image of the idea of the city.
Help and co-implementation: Andrzej S. Bieniek.