V&A South Kensington
Cromwell Road
SW7 2RL London
Großbritannien
Alicja Patanowska – The Ripple Effect
The Ripple Effect is a newly commissioned ceramic seating installation for the V&A’s garden and pond, by artist and designer Alicja Patanowska.
The seating installation, embedded with a fountain, addresses the circulation of water and matter. Partly made from mining waste from Poland, it invites reflection on our contested relationship with natural resources. The mining waste was sourced from Żelazny Most in southwest Poland – one of the largest reservoirs for mining waste in Europe.
The Ripple Effect refers to the knock-on impact of our daily consumption, raising questions over its long-term effect of natural resource extraction on our ecology as well as social relations. The installation is covered with 2,000 hand-made ceramic tiles, eight of which are coated with copper. This ratio poetically visualizes the complex relationship between extracted waste and the material yield in mining.
The Ripple Effect refers to the knock-on impact of our daily consumption, raising questions over its long-term effect of natural resource extraction on our ecology as well as social relations. The installation is covered with 2,000 hand-made ceramic tiles, eight of which are coated with copper. This ratio poetically visualizes the complex relationship between extracted waste and the material yield in mining.
The installation is part of the UK/Poland Season 2025, co-organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, British Council and Polish Cultural Institute in London.
Supported by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Poland.
