The starting point of Wiktoria Szawiel’s project Landscapes Within is her fascination with landscapes.
Landscapes Within
Polish designer Wiktoria Szawiel worked with casting, rattan weaving and wickerwork to create a collection of objects as a materialised essence of an eastern landscape.
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- 08 December 2014
- Lisbon
Memories of places she grew up bring her to wonder what is the meaning and importance of a landscape for an individual and humanity in general. This led her into a research about connection between landscapes and memory, cultural meaning of landscapes and functions it has for a society.
Szawiel was raised between Polish, Belarussian and Russian cultures. What they have in common, is nature: the unique, melancholic eastern landscape. In her project she aimed to capture the beauty and the spirituality of an eastern landscape within a physical object.
Working with casting, rattan weaving and wickerwork she develop precise proportions of different components for the resins, a kind of design recipes to be able to create the objects. Every object is made using a different recipe. Each one required a different way of creating a mould – sometimes the mould was an object itself: to make the chair Szawiel used an existing structure of a wicker chair reinforced with resin and therefore cutted and sanded. Without that the structure would just fall apart.
Landscape Within
Designer: Wiktoria Szawiel