ARTIST STATEMENT

Her works serve as temporary conduits for a meeting of substances, energies, locations, temporalities, intonations, and concepts, which the artist identifies as only events in a continuous series of material and symbolic interactions. Her sensitive examination and transformation of materials is a complex interpretive exercise that often manifests in objects, spaces, graphs, drawings, sounds, videos, and performative actions. Her objects and arrangements are base things that resist the binary of natural and artificial, joining together quotidian, ignoble, or emblematic stuff such as clay, plaster, concrete, gold, steel, glass, tar, animal fat, skin, fur, intestines, plasticine, plant fibers, dung, and ash. Often bordering on hylozoism (the concept that all matter and non-matter has life), each object or arrangement is invested in exploring the affecting nature of its material makeup and challenges the viewer to consider both the vital energetic relationships in all things and the inextricable interrelation of chaos and order. Her investigative practice distills, combines, deconstructs and redirects materials so as to rediscover hidden aspects and relations, while equally signifying a contingency or deficiency in rational, human understanding to access such properties.

BIOGRAPHY

Iza Tarasewicz (b. 1981, Bialystok, Poland; lives in Bialystok) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland (2008). She has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at  Syntax, Lisbon(2015), BWA Warszawa(2015), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp(2014), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok(2014), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2014); Polish Institute, Berlin (2014); Krolikarnia X. Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw (2013); ARTISTERIUM, International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Events, Tbilisi (2011); Gallery Labirynt, Lublin (2011); Platan Gallery, Budapest (2011); Stereo Gallery, Poznan (2010); and in group exhibitions at Zacheta National Museum, Warsaw(2015), Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia(2015), BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice (2014); Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2014); Center Of Contemporary Art, Torun (2013); Arsenal Gallery, Power Station, Bialystok (2013); Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw (2012); Kuenstlerhaus Dortmund (2012); Frutta Gallery, Rome (2012); J Gallery, Geneva (2011); Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw (2011); Europe House, Tbilisi (2011); Art Villa Garikula, Khaspi (2011); and many others. She was on residences at Syntax, Lisbon(2015), she was an artist-in-residence at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany(2013-2014), Capacete Enterteneminos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil(2013),A-I-R Laboratory-Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw(2013) and Art Villa Garikula, Khaspi, Georgia(2011)