* Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958), de Roman Polanski - uma curta-metragem centrada em que dois amigos carregam consigo um armário por uma cidade, onde damos conta das diferentes percepções da mesma coisa por diferentes pessoas e das suas reacções.
* A navegar encontrei Two Men and a Wardrobe (2008), uma instalação permanente em Sopot/ Polónia, de Paweł Althamer e Jacek Adamas.
(…) Althamer's decision to invite Adamas to participate in the project "Two Men and a Wardrobe" stems partially from the specific context in which the latter operates. A wooden wardrobe abandoned near the Sopot pier is a quotation from the famous 1958 school film study by Roman Polanski featuring two individuals from the margins of society. The sole reason for their alienation seems to be the fact that in their journey through the world they are forced (or want to) carry a grotesque burden. In this sense, the authors of the actual wardrobe can be read as a figure of the other, just like Polanski's film.
However, the cooperation between Althamer and Adamas is not only a self-conscious commentary which revives the truth of the film, but is also a question about the role of sculpture as an object in space – a question which keeps returning in a number of works by Althamer. By treating objects of everyday use, such as bus seats or accessories from a playground as self-sufficient sculptures, Althamer is eager to exchange the material object for a real experience, as it was during last year's edition of Skulptur Projekte Münster, where the audience was confronted with a trodden path which ran across a field. In this context, "Two Men and a Wardrobe" can be understood as an example of "social sculpture" – an object meant for a particular space, whose very definition implies a process of a slow, yet inevitable, change, also in its most literal, physical sense.
Realised by Open Art Project
In the collection of the State Art Gallery in Sopot.
