“Nitka” – art installation

From 8 November 2024, an art installation – ‘Nitka’ – linking Art_Inkubator and the Fusion complex, which was created as part of the year-long festival activities, can be viewed. The new object, inspired by the city’s textile heritage, was designed by Izabela Bołoz.

The thread that stands in the passage connecting the two neighbouring areas of Art_Inkubator and Fuzja has the task of symbolically integrating the spaces, which have functioned separately for a long time, although historically they form a unified cultural landscape. The form of the installation visualises the idea of ‘stitching’ the spaces together, referring to the thread unrolling from the spool, ‘passing’ through the layers of the tract between the two post-industrial areas.

The idea of the project refers to the textile traditions of Łódź and the industrial complex of the town that once belonged to the cotton tycoon Karol Scheibler. The installation is intended to act as an element identifying the place and a testimony to the local, urban identity. The appearance of an artistic object with an interactive character in a rediscovered space allows for its social revitalisation. The project is aesthetically simple, devoid of decorative style or historical imitation, and is not intended to compete with the post-industrial architecture of the area.

The installation was created on the initiative of the Łódź Art Center foundation, as part of the year-long Łódź Design Festival programme, in cooperation with the multifunctional Fusion complex.

Subsidized from the funds of the own program of the Center of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko titled Sculpture in Public Space for the Independent – 2024 from the budget of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. [Funding value: 80,000.00 PLN. Total investment cost: 94,270.00 PLN. Date of signing the agreement: June 2024].