Installation opening: 06/12/2025, 16:00–19:00 Free admission Location: technical corridor, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw The second intervention by Erik Smith within the project “Three Underground Spaces” takes place inside the Castle, in an easily overlooked corridor at the basement level. Hidden among seventeenth-century foundations, in places marked by stone bulges, this space probably always sat between more important rooms. Not long ago it led, for example, to gallery spaces. Today it is inaccessible to the public and used only by technical staff and cleaners. Of the three spaces in Smith’s project, it is the only one located literally underground. In the technical corridor the artist presents various objects almost literally taken from the institution’s past as well as from its present. Remnants of displays from previous exhibitions and cleaning equipment sit here alongside drill cores revealing accumulated layers of the building’s history in its most material form. These objects are accompanied by changes on the immaterial level — in the room’s sound and lightscape. This concentration of invisible elements of the space aims to open a field of perception specific to this particular place. At the same time it refers beyond the technical corridor — to the electromagnetic installation in the cistern, and to the archaeological intervention that will be the final part of Smith’s project at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle. photo: Erik Smith
