DOB1000609 is the identification number carried by Anna Zagrodzka as employee at the Dobrzelin sugar factory, where she produced her sugar factory piece. The piece is comprised of a wallpaper reminding of a monumental score and made from notes taken by the artist (and at the same time sugar engineer), which record the process of the extraction of the white crystals, and a series of short, static shots in the form of tondos, depicting the places crucial for the working of the factory in a remarkably evanescent, even painterly fashion. The fact that the videos are looped and circumscribed generates an effect of perpetuality, an eternal return, characteristic of the rhythm of sugar production - and of a factory’s work . The wallpaper and the video works are accompanied by a soundtrack, made by the artist herself, and created by combining two autonomous tracks — each build from recordings of the sugar factory’s everyday sounds — overlapping and intertwining in the exhibition space: the one rhythmic, repetitive sounds produced by the factory, Granting all the momentary spell, and the sensibility of Zagrodzka’a work, it is not exclusively a melancholic look back at the Polish sugar manufacturing tradition in a period of decline ( it is a hommage to prof. Stanisław Zagrodzki, the artist’s grandfather and doyen of the Polish sugar industry). Its sensuality, and the way it addresses the senses, reintroduce the work of the factory into our field of vision — and by doing that, also the work in the factory - something that has all but disappeared from it under the conditions of globalization and late capitalism, although still remaining the source of the commodities we consume. DOB1000609 by all means stimulates not only our minds, but also our historical and social imagination. Krzysztof Pijarski