Fairy tales have been called the collective dream of mankind - universal stories that are immune to time and cultural differences. The standard compositional scheme of fairy tales is based on the triumph of good over evil. In our stories, it is always the primordial forces of nature that triumph, which from the anthropocentric perspective of man are not always 'good' for him. Man's existence is threatened here 

During the pandemic, we lived in countryside. The time of the virus largely served post-apocalyptic ideas and the void present in them. During our hikes through the forest, we came across abandoned huts and ruins of palaces. As we learned about the local legends of tragic stories that had taken place in each of them. We photographed memorials to family tragedies - haunted places where the ruderal nature reflects the tragedies that happened there. 

In this alternative reality, we reached for all sorts of magical activities breaking through the rational approach that would help us deal with all this cruelty. One such action was a reference to the folk magic of knots. 

In a virtual reality we preserved our vision of alienation, insecurity, and flight into the forsaken world of spirits. The Biodegradable Space project is conceived as a ‘game’ played using VR goggles. The player-participant moves to the rooms we documented in various villages in the east and south of Poland.

The Biodegradable Space

project was co-created with Aleksandra Przybysz