seven porsches’ journey throughout europe turns into bodily art work

Seven traditional Porsches flip fictional race into an actual journey

What started as a fictional race via Eighties Tokyo has developed right into a venture comprising movie, pictures, artefacts, and a bodily set up. For Contact Layer of Shinjuku, Polish designer and artist Paweł Kalinowski introduced seven traditional Porsches, twelve members, and a 4,000-kilometer journey per automobile into a brand new physique of labor.

Contact Layer of Shinjuku is the newest chapter in Kalinowski’s ongoing exploration of automobiles, reminiscence, fiction, and lived expertise. The venture started with Shinjuku, a fictional universe impressed by Eighties Tokyo and an imagined race from Shinjuku to Mount Fuji. In 2026, Kalinowski returned a 1968 Porsche 911 to Japan, growing the automobile round recollections of the fictional occasion and hand-painting it in Tokyo. The Porsche subsequently turned one of many hero automobiles at Luftgekühlt Tokyo. The venture continued with Ghost Layer of Shinjuku, which handled a decaying Porsche 356 as an archaeological object. The automobile carried traces, artefacts, and recollections related to a life it had by no means really lived. This work examined how bodily objects may give kind to the notion of a fictional previous. Contact Layer of Shinjuku approaches the concept from the other way, utilizing an precise journey because the supply materials for the work.

In summer season 2026, seven traditional Porsches constructed between 1955 and 1992 travelled via Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania with twelve members from completely different generations. Each automobile coated roughly 4,000 kilometers. The journey was undertaken with out assist automobiles, tow vans, or a predetermined script. Friends travelled collectively, mother and father joined their youngsters, and a few members met for the primary time at first of the journey. The route handed via the vineyards of Tokaj, rural roads in Romania, mountain streams, and the Transfăgărășan. Roadside repairs, mechanical failures, and temperatures reaching 38°C turned a part of the journey. As the route progressed, the vacation spot and the person automobiles turned much less central to the venture, whereas the interactions and experiences generated alongside the best way turned its main materials.

morning on the foot of the mountains, all of the automobiles are able to proceed the journey

A automobile journey turns into movie, pictures, and set up

The journey was documented via pictures and movie, whereas objects, sounds, encounters, and recollections gathered alongside the route. These parts now kind extra layers of Contact Layer of Shinjuku, which is growing right into a seven-part documentary collection alongside a bodily set up. The set up treats the Porsche as a container for reminiscence, extending its function past that of an automotive or sculptural object. Moving photos, sound, mild, and bodily artefacts reconstruct fragments of the journey inside an exhibition atmosphere. The recorded expertise turns into materials for a second work, through which particular person parts are rearranged via spatial, visible, and sonic means. The first presentation of Contact Layer of Shinjuku is deliberate for Luftgekühlt in Atlanta in October 2026. The full work will subsequently premiere at Reszel Castle in Poland, with a future presentation in Tokyo additionally deliberate. Returning the venture to Tokyo would full a trajectory that started with the fictional world of Shinjuku, continued via an actual journey throughout Europe, and ultimately returns to town that established its unique setting.

Across its successive chapters, the venture led by designer and artist Paweł Kalinowski has expanded from automotive design and painted by hand automobiles into movie, pictures, sound, collected objects, and set up. Each iteration introduces a brand new medium whereas altering the connection to the previous work. The unique Shinjuku venture constructed recollections round a race that by no means happened; Contact Layer of Shinjuku makes use of an precise journey as the premise for creating these recollections via lived expertise, documentation, and materials kind.

pre-trip briefing – all of us met at CarBone’s headquarters in Łódź

driving throughout a small river – not one of the automobiles had been broken, regardless of the sharp rocks!

surprising moments may be fantastic – a flock of sheep encountered on the best way to the Transfăgărășan

Paweł’s automobile had an issue with the spar. A fast analysis, a number of expert arms, and the issue was fastened!

a kind of moments that completely spotlight the fantastic thing about this journey – a brief relaxation on the mountain amid Romanian vineyards

the primary Shinjuku exhibit – unveiled to the world at Luftgekhult in Japan – occasion for all air-cooled Porsche fans

the small print on the automobile had been crafted by hand utilizing numerous strategies