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"Baju baju you be in paradise..."

Containers are increasingly associated with the so-called "Exclusion policy". In many cities in Poland, whole container settlements are currently being built. Families come to them pathological, that is, those that could not afford to pay increased rents.

The phenomenon of exclusion may ultimately lead to polarization of the urban space, in which the so-called social margins. Excluding people who do not adhere to certain social norms from urban space may, as a consequence, also cause a certain process of unifying and massaging the society. It is in such a space in which there is a lack of a dose of otherness that the phenomenon of anesthetics by Wolgang Welsch appears. A situation arises when everything is created according to one standard. This leads, inter alia, to the reduction of the feeling of sublimity and thus to the deprivation of the opportunity to enjoy the urban landscape.

The same fate of marginalization and exclusion may be met by the main heroines of the implementation "baju baju you will be in paradise". The heroines are two unknown women.

One - Mrs. Janka from Zielona Góra has an artificial eye, which was inserted after her alcoholic husband deprived her of natural. In his small attic apartment, where he lives with her sister, she creates her paradise by simple means. She remembers this real paradise lost from childhood when she lived in a beautiful house with a garden with lots of singing birds. "Now I have birds but they don't sing. This is how we live. "

The second heroine - the lady from Wilda never leaves, never leaves her apartment. The heroine analyzes her life, wonders what was successful in it, what did not ..., she makes a loud examination of conscience. She does not know that her sorrows, memories, stories told to herself aloud are overheard and recorded. The image of her person and the vision of her fate is created from these torn pieces of information heard and stolen.