A monument to something that never happened

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A Monument to Something That Never Happened (28 March 1983); Polish: Pomnik czegoś, co nigdy się nie wydarzyło (28.03.1983)) is a sculpture designed by Wilhelm Sasnal located in Mościce, Poland.

Location: The sculpture is located in Mościce, a district in the western side of Tarnów. It has been installed in the green space on Chemiczna Street, near the tracks of railway line 91, close to Tarnów Mościce station and Jaskółcze Gniazdo Municipal Stadium.

The sculptor, Wilhelm Sasnal, is a Polish artist from Mościce. His 4-metre high (13 ft) creation is made of 14 concrete sewer rings, arranged in the shape of a pyramid and coated with adhesive. A random date is inscribed in one of the circles: 28.03.1983. According to Sasnal, this is the moment when a major disaster could have occurred, but it never materialised. The artwork was unveiled on 28 August 2010 as part of the Tarnów project 1000 lat nowoczesności (English: 1000 Years of Modernity).

The monument is intended to evoke a sense of threat that was ever-present in Mościce’s social landscape prior to 1989, and thus during the Cold War, prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the political transformation...