The space is steeped in our phantasms. We filter it with our own eyes, and thus create it ourselves. In Slavic folklore, people endowed houses with anthropomorphic features: a house-body. The house was believed to be leading its own existence, playing a humanlike role in family life. The boundaries defining the location of abandoned places spread outwards. They are the ghost of the previous space, a murky haze through which one gropes. These are spaces of absence, devoid even of themselves.

During the pandemic, we lived in villages surrounded by the forest and our imagination. 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 and tragic stories that had taken place in each of them, we wove a new reality for ourselves full of haunted houses and ghosts that followed us. We photographed memorials to family tragedies - haunted places where the ruderal nature reflects the tragedies that happened there. Sometimes it can be gentle and inviting and at times dangerous and armoured. The ghosts of the tragedies of the places rise from the ground and guard them.

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. We decided to bind the abandoned houses we found in order to close their memories, physical boundaries and stop the decay metaphorically.
We wrote down the stories of the events in the places we visited in the form of fairy tales, so that only the memory remains. The time, place and protagonists of the events had to remain anonymous.

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 

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. It shifts from space to space. The observed spaces are marked by varying degrees of time’s passage and deterioration.