SORRY, 2022
Poznań, Roosevelta 22
Joanna Rajkowska’s SORRY is a concrete sculpture in the form of a wall topped with shards of glass, shaped into a labyrinth that, when viewed from above, spells out the word “SORRY.” The installation was presented in 2022 at Art Haven in Poznań, between the Concordia and Bałtyk buildings.
The work is a bitter manifesto on the situation of refugees at the Polish-Belarusian border and on global mechanisms of exclusion and violence. It also refers to the phenomenon of “hostile architecture” — forms designed to deter and marginalize people in crisis.
Rajkowska creates an anti-monument that does not apologize but confronts — evoking discomfort, unease, and questions of social responsibility. SORRY is both a protest against dividing refugees into the “worthy” and the “unworthy” and an attempt to capture emotions that have found no place in the official language of monuments.
The work was created in cooperation with the Wielkopolska Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.