Kindling Spaces: Griecs’s Photos on Display to Commemorate 100th Birthday of Nador 11 Building

May 6, 2014

Kindling Spaces, CEU staff member Henriett Griecs’ first photo exhibition, celebrates the beauty of the CEU community as well as the 100th birthday of the Nador 11 building. Griecs, who joined CEU in 1999, is an administrative coordinator in the Department of Public Policy. She started taking photographs in 2007 after realizing that she had always been composing what she saw into smaller self-contained and intimate worlds. She has no formal training in this art, but she owes a lot to her friends, whose company and ideas have inspired her, not only in her photography, but in other aspects of her life as well. Heni uses various photographic equipment, including regular film and polaroid film cameras, her simple mobile phone, and other digital cameras.

“In these spaces you find how the seemingly austere environment… is kindled by the people who work here,” she says of Nador 11. “There is reciprocity between how people care for their space and how the environment responds with an embrace. The intensity, color and shape of sunshine sneaking in are different every part of the day. The light bubbles on the ceiling of an elevator, the wide white marble window sills in the staircase where you can sit and make private phone calls, or where you stop for a minute to admire the courtyard in the falling snow or rain. The skyline of the rooftops at sunset seen from the top floor offices. The landing in the staircase where you stop with one foot already on the next step while the other is longing to stay to have a parting chat with your work friend after lunch.”

The exhibition runs until May 31.