At the Crespo Foundation, After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25, approaches the contemporary landscape not as scenery but as a contested field of perception, extraction, memory, and technological mediation.
When the Italian architect Marino Zancanella visited Poznań in 2024, his meticulous observations of the city’s local Renaissance architecture — most notably the structural geometry, rhythmic arches, and humanistic proportions of the Town Hall designed by the classic master Giovanni Battista di Quadro — did not merely result in a localised aesthetic appreciation or a transient exchange of professional courtesy.
There is a shared question running through the practices of Nona Inescu and Oláh Gyárfás: what happens to things after they lose their original function? A stone after it stops being perceived as landscape, a plant after it stops being decoration, a textile after it is no longer a tool, a body after it becomes a trace.