Erik Smith Second intervention “Three Spaces Underground” | sound installation

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Opening of the installation: 06/12/2025, 16:00–19:00

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Free admission

technical corridor, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.

The second intervention by Erik Smith within the project “Three Spaces Underground” takes place inside the Castle, in an easily overlooked corridor at the basement level. Hidden among 17th-century foundations, in places marked by stone bulges, this space likely always lay between more important rooms. Until recently it led, for example, to gallery spaces. Today it is inaccessible to the public and used only by technical and cleaning staff. Among the three spaces in Smith’s exhibition project, it is the only one literally underground.

In the technical corridor the artist presents a variety of 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 that reveal accumulated layers of the building’s history in their most material form. These objects are accompanied by changes on an 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 points beyond the technical corridor — to an electromagnetic installation in a cistern, and to an archaeological intervention that will be the last part of Smith’s project at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.

Detailed information: https://u-jazdowski.pl

photo: Erik Smith