Exhibition "Edges of Memory: Dnipro – Unveiling the Imagined, Symbolic, and Real"

On June 12 at 18:00, the exhibition “Edges of Memory: Dnipro – Unveiling the Imagined, Symbolic, and Real” by Maciej Zdanowicz will open at the Experimental Studio.

This is an experimental site-specific exploration of collective and individual memory, embedded in the historical and cultural topography of the city, where layers of political and economic transformation intersect with processes of rethinking urban identity. The project is rooted in a psychoanalytic perspective inspired by Jacques Lacan, offering a multi-layered reading of the city through three phases: the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real.

The exhibition features a multimodal installation, where an audio archive, video recordings, and sculptural interventions serve as parallel methods of documenting and interpreting the city's memory.

The acoustic landscape of Dnipro is composed into a layered sound piece that blends street noise, traffic and crowd sounds, silence from abandoned spaces, and sonic echoes of war. This is complemented by oral histories — testimonies of people experiencing the city’s transformations. The third layer of the project is a material archive of memory: imprints of urban fragments created from fragile and impermanent materials.

Maciej Zdanowicz is a Polish multidisciplinary artist, curator of art and socially engaged projects, and a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. His work explores themes of memory, postmemory narratives, and collective identity.

Admission is free. The exhibition will run through June 25, open Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00–19:00.

The Experimental Studio is a space on the second floor of DCCC dedicated to experimental practices and collaboration with emerging artists.