Gate

Abstract

This essay discusses thematic-aspect semiotics of Brama Grodzka (the Grodzka Gate) in Lublin. The author read and interpreted the “writing” of the space (real and symbolic) in whose very centre the Gate is located. The perspective of geo-poetics becomes connected with a sociological approach, while the topography of Lublin and the location and architectonic form of the Gate become a canvas for assorted presences of the symbolic tissues of reality, which, in turn, lead towards the profound structure of the “text” of Lublin. A prominent motif of the argument is an analysis of photographs of the Gate taken by Józef Czechowicz and reflection on the “place of the place” of the Gate and that, which becomes disclosed in its “opening”.