I find the spontaneous expression of reality much more interesting than people’s meticulously planned, rationally arranged works. From the chaos of infinite variables in the substance of every day, unexpected, synaesthetic, universal compositions emerge. I have always considered my relationship with space to be unique. In the past, my favourite places were the Żerań complex in Warsaw (Żerań thermal power station and Żerań railway station) or the Lidl supermarket next to my family home. 

In I Have This View So Often That It Could Be Me, I have used dictaphone recordings I’d collected for years. I record everything that catches my attention: a child’s aquarium lamp; a bus journey from Bielsko to Żywiec in the mountains; the sound of the radio filtering through a neighbour’s door; the night ambience of Targówek with its resounding train horns; the looping beat of the washing machine in my partner’s flat; the conversations of elderly neighbours outside the condominium. I have created sculptural objects in ribbed steel-armoured concrete. They are an interpretation of the cubic volume of the blocks of flats in the Targówek Mieszkaniowy where I have lived for over a year. The object processes the recordings I have collected via a guitar pickup and AbletonLive software. I automate the audio effects parameters so that the processing changes over time. In places, I emphasise the content of the recordings; elsewhere I completely deconstruct it. I have erected a monument to my perception of everyday reality.

Maciej Miecznikowski