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interview with Anna Baranowska at Free Range from Ephraim Joris on Vimeo.

Anna Baranowska proposes this project titled ‘Domestic Superimposition’ as an answer to the exhibition title Interior-Loci.

Interior-Loci suggest the questioning of the location of the interior providing a conceptual passage for interior architect designers to critically investigate the act of spatial design in relation to the interior and (what one would assume) the inevitable act of interiorisation.

With her installation exhibited at Free Range 2009 in London she illustrates the operation of her design to be closely related to “visual thinking” as described for example by Rudolph Arnheim and Robert H McKim.

This “visual thinking”, manifest in a variety of ways and expressed through a variety of media engages with the mapping of different places she lived in throughout her life in order to interiorise her notion of home. Based on observation and description she conceptualizes the domestic interior beyond phenomenological space and describes a place that only exists in time.

With the development of this type of work; Anna Baranowska meanders between the use of classical (or sometimes described as authoritative) representational/analytical tools in line with architectural professional codes and more perceptive tools for examination using different media from different disciplines.  This instigates interdisciplinary practice, important to appropriate an exploration/study of space (as the principal commodity for spatial designers) through different notions of inspection. Objective observations towards the physical and technological are complemented with more sensual/subjective observations towards the sensorial and emotional to enable a critical dialogue between that which might be categorized as scientific or ‘object-driven’ and that which might be developed through experience, coincidence and error.

This nurtures an interesting questioning of the notion of ‘professionalism’ particular to Interior practice (or any other practice). As much as professional codes provide the organizational substrata for our spatial practice we can strategically superimpose ‘moments’ of ‘avoiding’ professional codes of representation and invest in languages of other disciplines to explore the subject of space beyond conventional representation and thus beyond conventional form. 

Article by Ephraim Joris

Anna Baranowska graduated from Interior Architecture & Design at The University for the Creative Arts, Canterbury.

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