This exhibition presents a historical
impression about a small spot in the urban space of Szczecinin,
the European city situated on the Polish-German border in the
estuary of the Oder flowing into the Baltic. The place, which
in different periods bore two names - the German: Karkutschstrasse
and the Polish - St. Wojciech Street. The Karkutschstrasse in
the German Stettin existed since 1874 until 1945. The St. Wojciech's
appeared in the Polish Szczecin in 1945 and is present there until
today. This unique virtual excursion in time and space, has been
presented on forty one-metre high tablets. There meet historic
sources showing the present as if taken by the camera's eye. Reproductions,
old pictures, maps, drawings - tenement houses' drafts, old documents,
out-of-date and modern photos - all these build up your imagination
of the street, confronts the past with the present in the most
material, original form. The traces of the past constitute, beside
the remembrance of the old and modern citizens, the only bridge
between the present and past worlds. It is them who do not allow
you stay indifferent towards the question of this place's identity
and make you search for the answers to the question, which has
for years remained unanswered.