Nest brings architectural form to Marcin Dudek’s long-standing inquiry into memory, precarity, and resilience, shaped by his childhood in post-communist Poland during the country’s turbulent transition to capitalism. At the centre of the exhibition is a reconstruction of the fifty-square-metre family apartment in Kraków where Dudek lived with seven relatives over two decades: a compressed domestic interior that visitors physically enter by ascending a staircase and passing through a narrow corridor. Stripped of furniture and free of nostalgia, the installation functions as a hybrid of sculpture, environment, and psychological map, where artworks, objects, and gestures spatialise memory into a space that feels at once intimate, provisional, and uncanny.
