Gosia Wlodarczak’s ‘Room Without A View’ Shows What Happens When An Artist Spends 17 Days In A Box (PHOTOS)
Posted in: Today's ChiliWhat would you do if you were trapped inside a dark box for 17 days straight?
The answer for Gosia Wlodarczak would be to draw, as evidenced by her recent display at RMIT Gallery in Melbourne. The Polish artist spent nearly two and a half weeks packaged inside a sensory limitation cube (otherwise known as a giant black box), embarking on a self-imposed challenge to sketch everyday from 10:30 AM to 5 PM with as little exposure to the outside world as possible.
The entire adventure, titled “A Room Without A View“, was documented via webcam, allowing audiences to spy on Wlodarczak’s daily happenings as she stood, sat and stooped inside her cube. Of course, her activities consisted almost entirely of drawing on the walls of her temporary sanctuary, creating a frenzied, cross-stitched design all around her, meant to represent what she “saw” while in the dark enclosure.
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