Catharine Czudej

Constructing another approach to reality, mixed-media artist Catharine Czudej destabilizes and displaces common objects and conventions with a humorous approach. By inverting and manipulating the familiar, she makes sculptures, installations, paintings and films, with an often unnatural and absurd feel. Czudej’s work radiates playfulness by, for example, creating paintings from soap and sculpting furniture from crafted pretzels, finishing it with salt. The surreal narratives and joke-like associations in her work however reveal a critical analysis of the conventional and the dominant, questioning gender roles, the body, labour and power dynamics.