Invited by the Gallery XS in Kielce, Karolina Breguła decided to respond with her work to the popular saying ‘as cold as at the station in Kielce’. The artist approached freezing passengers waiting for their trains: using gigantic lamps, she created a warm square at the station, where they could warm themselves up. Artistic Emergency Service was a minor intervention with a short-lived and slight yet real effect on everyday life, but also a perverse voice in the debate on the usefulness of art and its potential for introducing actual change. Breguła points out that contrary to lofty declarations of engagement and focus on social issues, art remains distant from the problems of real people. The question of art’s involvement in social issues will return in Breguła’s later works, such as The Soup (2014) or Instruments for Making Noise (2016).