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The above Architectural Compositions by Wladyslaw Strzeminski are the basis of wall and floor drawings in CLAP in the Factory 49 showroom. These drawings separate the two parts of several of Strzeminski's Architectural Compositions and each part is located so that if the physical space separating them is deleted they collapse back into a drawing (or collage) of the Strzeminski painting.

The purpose of separating the two parts and inserting the actual space of the Showroom into the earlier composition is to acknowledge the actual space that is disregarded in the spatial autonomy characteristic of conventional artforms. Strzeminski and co-artist Katarzyna Kobro questioned these conventions in the 1920s, discussing them using the term unizm. This project aims to recognise the foresight of such early twentieth century artists, while reflecting the greater urgency that their spatial concerns now have with the rise in sea temperatures and other signs of the blind disregard modern culture has for the inhabitability of the planet.