Rosa's Passage

Rosa's Passage combines both private and public narratives. It is the story of the disease and convalescence of the artist's child, Rosa, diagnosed with eye cancer in 2012, contained within a story of the revitalization (recovery) of a 19th-century building, that started to “see”.


The 800m2 of wall in the Polski Hotel's courtyard have been meticulously covered with a mosaic of tiny pieces of broken mirrors. The repeated rosette pattern mimics the arrangement of the cells of the human retina. The ultimate result is a mesmerising fragmentation of the space.

The de-materialization of a solid, a radical relativization of perception and a fascination with seeing per se became an architectural experience in the project – the architecture has been treated as a living organism covered with light-sensitive tissue. The key to understanding Rosa's Passage is the identification of the human body with and through architectural matter.

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Commissioned and produced by: Lodz 4 Cultures Festival
Director of Lodz 4 Cultures Festival: Zbyszek Brzoza

Special thanks to:
Deputy Mayor - Agnieszka Nowak
City Architect - Marek Janiak
City Conservation Officer - Kamila Kwiecińska-Trzewikowska
Director of the City Museum of Łódź - Małgorzata Laurentowicz-Granas
Vice-Director - Maja Jakóbczyk

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Lodz 4 Cultures Festival
Zbyszek Brzoza
Dorota Krauze
Jacek Wiśniewski

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RWSL Architectural Office:
Hubert Lebelt
Ewelina Oleksiak

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Production management: BGR Bau
Katarzyna Zuchmańska
Cezary Cichosz
Artur Plaskota
Krzysztof Biesiekierski

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Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź
Chancellor - Jolanta Rudzka-Habisiak
Dean of the Faculty of painting and graphic design - Zdzisław Olejniczak

Ola Ignasiak
Magdalena Wójcik
Ewelina Ledzion
Katarzyna Fleszar
Dominika Federowicz
Lidia Jabłońska
Sabina Świątkowska
Karolina Zaborska
Kasia Stręk
Ewelina Zawiślan
Paulina Wlazły
Monika Malinowska
Martyna Majda
Ania Świątek
Maja Wolniewska
Sylwia Dworecka
Daria Szymańska
Magdalena Wasińska
Marta Irena Pietrzak
Michał Andrzej Matysiak
Ola Ignasiak
Marta Giec
Irena Zieniewicz
Magdalena Zieniewicz
Paulina Matuszelańska
Ola Kozioł
Karolina Gębka
Helena Oczkoś
Katarzyna Lendzion
Magdalena Świtaj-Wolnicka

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Institute of Philosophy
Wioletta Kazimierska-Jerzyk
Michał Antosiak
Filip Woźniak