Marcin Dudek, Katowice, 2004, oil on paper

The waterside contemporary gallery in London presents "Winter Pavilion", a series of projects such as the ambitious outdoor installation by Marcin Dudek 

A pavilion is traditionally a space of retreat, and in art parlance a showcase. "Winter Pavilion" brings the two meanings together, using both the gallery and an off-site space.

Marcin Dudek creates "Screen House" in Shoreditch Park, a short walk from the gallery. This modular and portable building originally housed the artist’s studio in Whitechapel, and now becomes an interactive viewing platform. 
Entering "Screen House", visitors will be able to experience an alternative landscape consisting of peep-holes, collages and projections. The idea is to create a space of flexible forms, specially conceived to be mutable enough to be transferable and to better serve its residents/users' different proposals, planned settings and agendas.

Dudek's practice follows enclosed spaces - examining how we make them and how we interact with them when they are made. Dudek himself grew up in the housing estates that can be found across Poland, and his irritation with these was not so much to do with their sizes as with their repetition. "Screen House" is a humorous re-creation of the 'module', offering unexpected vistas and perspectives.

Dudek, born 1979 in Kraków, Poland, lives and works in London. Studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art. Recent exhibitions include 16th Biennial of Cerveira (Portugal), waterside contemporary, T1+2 (London).

Source: waterside-contemporary.com

Thumbnail credits: Marcin Dudek, Screen House, 2010, artist's studio in Whitechapel. Photo by Manuel Vazquez