Shyadai Gallery
Closes March 31
Photographer Takuya Tsukahara has had a fascination with the culture of Poland since 1927, and he was there working on the "Black Madonna" project when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. Later, in 1996, a local artist took Tsukahara to Silesia, an industrial region in Central Europe that was once divided between Germany and Poland. This series of photographs explores the diverse architectural styles of Silesia, a result of the many political influences the region has been under since World War I.
In the 1930s many brick factory buildings were built under German influence. Fascism also had an effect on office buildings, while factories made of steel were built by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. After most of Silesia was assigned back to Poland by the Allied powers, the flow of funds for industrial production in the region also came to a halt.