panGenerator

the
erosion

an info-sculpture about
the crumbling memory
year
2024
client
Pilecki Institute Berlin
credits
Krzysztof Cybulski
Krzysztof Goliński
Jakub Koźniewski

EROSION, staged on Pariser Platz beside Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, invites passers-by to confront how nations remember—or misremember—their past. Fed with poll data on German awareness of World War II and Poland, the info-sculpture translates statistics into shifting light and text, exposing the gaps that open when eyewitnesses fade and facts are left to second-hand stories.

The work resembles a eroded stone block: a cuboid riddled with voids that suggest a monument on the verge of crumbling. Brutalist yet data-driven, its custom alphanumeric panels continuously flash figures from the Pilecki Institute’s latest research, then let the numbers disintegrate. Letters scatter and vanish, mirroring the erosion of collective memory under the pressure of time, disinformation, and indifference.

By turning abstract survey results into a tangible, decaying form, EROSION asks each viewer to fill the missing pieces before they are lost. It is both warning and call to action: preserving historical truth is not only the task of archives and teachers; it depends on the vigilance of every passer-by who stops, watches the data crumble—and chooses to remember.

year
2024
client
Pilecki Institute Berlin
credits
Krzysztof Cybulski
Krzysztof Goliński
Jakub Koźniewski