Through the Lens, Beyond the Walls

Polina Lykhohrai Open House Barcelona 2025 · Future Heritage

The animation reflects on how our ways of seeing and sharing architecture today shape the heritage of tomorrow. It captures the tension between observing and truly experiencing — between the urge to document and the desire to feel. Through soft movements and layered compositions, the work explores how people often view spaces through their phone screens, turning presence into performance and memory into pixels. Yet within this digital gaze, a quiet question arises: what kind of legacy are we leaving behind? The piece also touches on accessibility and the collective right to experience beauty — reminding us that the future of heritage depends on openness and inclusion. Every frame invites the viewer to slow down, notice light and texture, and rediscover the emotional depth of everyday architecture — seeing it not just as design, but as a living trace of who we are and what we choose to preserve.