Iza Tarasewicz

Iza Tarasewicz’s elegant and impressive structures are at once puzzling and pleasing. The Polish artist’s sculptures, installations and the intersections of the two form modular systems composed of metallic elements that can be infinitely rearranged. Limitless opportunity for changes, connections and transformations characterise Chaos theory, according to which everything is connected to each other, and a small change can remodel the entirety of a system. Tarasewicz’s works combine scientific theory with aesthetics, normality with extremity, beauty with pathology. Mysteriously technical while also organic, her materials are ones that she closely knows: her practice is intimately shaped by her personal family history. Growing up, she would observe her parents and grandparents build and make things from seemingly nothing; her father's death made her quit her studies as a psychotherapist, leading her towards her art-making. In such a way, Tarasewicz’s works are candid abstractions that speak about reality in the most unique way. ...