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.
The residency and exhibition of Iza Tarasewicz in Kostka Gallery are supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
http://izatarasewicz.com/