Broken windows open a view to the outside, connecting interior and exterior spaces. Like most elements of the building, they require regular care, maintenance, repair, cleaning.
Through the planned intervention, this simple act of upkeep gains a deeper significance: panes of glass will be fitted with cyanotypes of native plant species. The windows thus regain their original function while becoming a link between the untamed vegetation of the park and the slow transformation of the former school. As the light shifts throughout the day, the images pass gently across the space, touching floors and walls before fading again; brief, almost shy presences that seem to move with the building’s own quiet rhythm. The plants printed on the glass once grew here, and in their fragile blue silhouettes they return, reconnecting the place with its own ecological memory.
The installation was completed in early 2026; the theme of this year’s Biennale is “in practice – as opposed to in theory” and called for interventions that showcased practical methods to work with the site: an abandoned school in a prime location near the old botanical garden, now park. The exposures were taken during workshops with interested participants from Timisoara in April and as part of the program for the pre-opening weekend in May.
