World Minus All of Me explores the fragile relationship between human presence and the material world through the space of Kraków's flea market. It approaches the marketplace as a living archive of transformation, where people, objects and architecture coexist in a continuous state of movement, exchange and reinterpretation. More than a place of commerce, the flea market becomes a site of collective memory, where everyday encounters, material culture and human activity are embedded within the identity of the place.
Family heirlooms, obsolete technologies, mass-produced objects, everyday tools and collector's items circulate between successive owners, continuously acquiring new meanings while preserving traces of previous lives. The project examines material culture as an adaptive system in constant reorganisation. Human presence, by contrast, is temporary. Individual lives pass, while objects continue their journeys through successive hands, becoming silent witnesses to changing systems of value and memory.
The project was developed through artistic research in expanded photography using photogrammetry and Gaussian Splatting. Video recordings of the market were transformed into fluid three-dimensional reconstructions, creating a hybrid medium situated between photography, moving image and spatial representation. Conceived as a visual essay, the work uses computational imaging not to reproduce reality but to reconstruct the marketplace as a dynamic ecosystem in which memory, perception and materiality continuously evolve.
Presented as a single-channel immersive video installation in a continuous loop, the work encourages slow observation rather than narrative viewing. The reconstructed environment repeatedly forms and dissolves, inviting viewers to experience the subtle rhythms of the market and to reflect on the circulation of objects, the memory of place and the shifting relationship between people and the material world.
The title refers to Stefan Themerson's philosophical tale The Adventures of Pędrak the Outcast. Here, World Minus All of Me imagines a world in which individual identity recedes, allowing the long biographies of objects and the memory embedded within places to come to the foreground.
World Minus All of Me
HD, colour, stereo, 9’36”, Audio licensed under CC BY: Schemawound – A Month of Dust (source: Free Music Archive)
