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‘Transpassing’ is a collaborative video work with performance artist Vena Naskrecka, created during our residency in the city of Poznan, as part of the conference ‘Paradox’ 2015. The focus here is on the decentralization of the city and two opposite aspects, telling us a simple story about the changes in the function of urban infrastructure. On the one hand there are the multitude of shopping malls with their own ‘micro-climate’ including artificial lights and air, order and sterility, monitored by cameras and security. On the other hand, Poznan has many old abandoned buildings, where the human input and nature come together, in full circle. These places are mysterious and easy to sneak in, but dangerous to explore as parts of the floors are in ruin and easily crumbling. Both created because of economic reasons, the abandoned buildings and the shopping malls link to each other, in notion of past and present. Suggesting that the present will become the past and the past can become the future. The differently-looking and functioning spaces confronted with each other could also be interpreted as a critique of the commercialization of the city, which is famous for the number of shopping centres growing like mushrooms after rain in almost every district of Poznań, often at the expense of smaller and more traditional family run businesses.