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Some time ago I posted about our artist friend Izabela Pluta's most recent
Sydney exhibition Reservoir:
Today she has a major public gallery show opening in Melbourne at the Monash
Gallery of Art:
"Izabela Pluta is a Sydney-based artist who migrated to Australia from Poland as
a child. Her art practice explores themes of displacement and belonging through
the photographic documentation of found objects and serendipitous encounters.
The centre piece of the exhibition will be a large photomural along the curved
wall of the Focus Gallery exhibition space."
Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to Melbourne for the exhibition, but I'm
looking forward to seeing installation images at her website in a new future:
Also, congratulations to Izabela for receiving an Australia Council for the Arts New
Work (Established) Grant to research and create a new body of work based on
'phony' landscapes and prefabricated ruins.
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| Izabela Pluta Photo: Ridou Ridou, April 2011. |
An excerpt from the catalogue for the exhibition written by:
Emma Mayall
Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
"While the places shown in each photograph are uninhabited, they resonate with a palpable human presence. In
these unoccupied spaces there is the residual trace of intervention and agency, including the keen eye and hand of
Pluta herself. The process of discovery forms an essential part of her practice, and the phenomenological experience
of place is as important as the material that emerges from it. Pluta has the sensibility of an anthropologist or an
archaeologist, although her methodology is undoubtedly that of an artist. She is able to uncover the profound
metaphorical associations that each image shares, and there is an intuitive and deeply personal logic in the way that
Pluta (re)collects and arranges them. We can imagine each piece scattered throughout her studio, her home, in
draws, in corners, or on the gallery wall, shuffled and reshuffled. It is here that other unexpected associations
appear and fresh narratives and histories are born."
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| Izabela catching up with the author, Ridou Ridou (Esa), in Finland in summer 2010. |
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