A site-specific media installation developed through artistic research into cultural heritage, memory of place, and the relationship between moving image and medieval architecture.
The project was created for the fourteenth-century wall paintings in the Prince's Tower in Siedlęcin, one of Europe's most remarkable medieval monuments. The tower preserves the world's only surviving in situ cycle of medieval wall paintings depicting the legend of Sir Lancelot and the Knights of the Round Table, making it an exceptional site of European cultural heritage.
The installation introduced a temporary visual layer that revealed their narrative structure, iconography, and inscriptions. Projected directly onto the historic surfaces, the moving image functioned as a contemporary interpretative medium, allowing hidden relationships within the paintings to emerge while fully respecting the integrity of the monument.
The work investigates how digital media can engage with fragile cultural heritage without physical intervention. By treating projection as an ephemeral layer of interpretation, the project explores the possibilities of artistic research as a method of activating historical memory and deepening the experience of place. Here, moving image becomes a tool not only of representation but also of remembrance, enabling a contemporary dialogue with a monument whose visual narratives have endured for nearly seven centuries.
The project was developed as part of European Archaeology Days 2026 in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University. I conceived and produced the site-specific projection mapping installation, developing its visual concept, animation, and projection design based on archaeological research and interpretative materials prepared by Dr. Radosław Palonka, Dr. Przemysław Nocuń, and Julia Giza.
