Doormats – the symbol of home and safety – with the words Welcome home, There’s no place like home, Welcome have been placed in Krakow’s Planty Park by the benches which are often inhabited by the homeless. The Home sweet home project by Agnieszka Popek-Banach and Kamil Banach, the winners of this year’s edition of the Fresh Zone competition, which is organized as part of the ArtBoom Tauron Festival, was supposed to draw attention to the problem of homelessness in Krakow. The homeless reacted very favourably to this initiative: some were happy about having something of their own, that something, however small, had been done for them, that they had been noticed, because for many people they had become as plain as the benches in the Planty Park.

Even though the doormats had been glued to the ground with a very strong glue, the day after being assembled there was no trace of them. Shortages are being continuously supplemented. The initiative will last until stocks have been exhausted.


Pictures: Agnieszka Popek-Banach, Kamil Banach