From the start of their joint creative practice, Karska/Went have been interested in forgotten and abandoned spaces where the hustle and bustle of human activity has gone or not yet appeared.
In the Miastoprojekt / The City Project series, they documented the appearance of a fleeting installation, a model of an imaginary city built of sugar cubes on wet sand. The location of this project was not accidental: the Gdańsk Shipyard, the cradle of Solidarity, once a symbol of the power of coastal industry, gradually deteriorated since the 1990s. Since 2000, this area has been transforming from an industrial to an urban district deprived of context and heritage.
The City Project exposes modernism's utopian ideas – promising, and yet inhumane. In Gdańsk, examples of this are the large districts of Przymorze, Zaspa and Żabianka, which, although located with access to the sea, overpower with their lack of individualism.