Diana Lelonek, Changing Room, 2025, wood, digital printing on fabric, 240 × 350 × 300 cm. (Visual: Piotr Matosek, Postproduction of the photograph: Paweł Liro).
Diana Lelonek, Changing Room, 2025, wood, digital printing on fabric, 240 × 350 × 300 cm. (Visual: Piotr Matosek, Postproduction of the photograph: Paweł Liro).
Diana Lelonek is a Warsaw-based artist whose interdisciplinary practice brings together photography, living organisms, and post-industrial debris to examine multispecies survival.
Changing Room, the third chapter in Lelonek’s ongoing exploration of speculative climate futures, focuses on the evolving coastal ecology of the region, shaped by global warming and biodiversity shifts. This installation situated on Dadaepo Beach, transforms an everyday beach facility into a contemplative space for environmental reflection. The structure, built as a functioning beach changing room, is wrapped in printed textile featuring digitally collaged images that visualize predicted environmental transformations. Collaborating with local researchers, Lelonek grounds her vision in scientific projections: biodiversity loss, sea level rise and marine heat waves are all part of the imagined futures she presents.
The act of changing clothes becomes a quiet metaphor for deeper transformation—landscapes, climates, and collective imagination. Changing Room doesn’t only project dystopian outcomes; it also gestures toward the possibility of renewal.
Through the layered visuals of multispecies coexistence, adaptive ecosystems, and resilient futures, Lelonek offers glimpses of what may lie ahead for the visitors.
