Iza Tarasewicz

Iza Tarasewicz was born in 1981 and raised in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Bialystok, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture and Performing Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2008. She is living between Bialystok, Munich and various other territories.

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.

Iza Tarasewicz is the winner of the “View 2015-Deutsche Bank Award”, the prize for young Polish art, regarded as Poland’s most important art prize.  The exhibition was presented at Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw in 2015. In 2016, she will participate in the 32nd Bienal se Sao Paulo 2016 and in 11th Gwangju Biennale 2016, Korea.

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