Artist Kamila Szejnoch installed a swing on an old communist monument in Warsaw, Poland.
Reminds us of the Bus Stop Swing.
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Artist Kamila Szejnoch installed a swing on an old communist monument in Warsaw, Poland.
Reminds us of the Bus Stop Swing.
Comments are closed.
Extremely appropriate because, if I remember correctly, this is a statue to the Red Army in WW II, which pretends that they were reaching across the river helplessly while their brethren fought against the Germans during the Warsaw Uprising. In reality, Stalin had stalled the Red Army hoping the Germans would kill all the nationalistic Poles who were fighting to liberate Warsaw on the other side. You couldn’t pick a better place to mock.
This was not really Red Army but part of Polish Army (as a matter of fact my grandpa was in this formation…), that was unfortunately dependent on Stalin…
You can read more historical background and on her project at Kamila Szejnach webpage:
http://kamilaszejnoch.vizz.pl/posters.html
take care!
Kamil
Aye cute innovation.