GDAŃSK UNDER THE HOOD, 2024
If you explore the city closely enough and long enough, you start seeing things that escape you at first glance. Places that don’t really match the more or less maintained, neat areas around the main streets. Sometimes it’s enough to take a few steps in an unusual direction and you start noticing places utterly different, like existing in some parallel universe. Unkempt, abandoned buildings and spaces, sometimes still resembling their former shape, sometimes transformed into landfill sites. Scary, ominous, sad, but also fascinating, with an aura of mystery around them. This is what intrigues me, this is what I look for when exploring a city.
Here is the first iteration of Under the Hood series — Gdańsk. A perfect object for this project — a city where parallel universe is just around the corner and modern, elegant buildings coexist with rotting ruins.
