Plait

Iza Tarasewicz

  • type of object: sculpture
  • date: 2010
  • material/technique: natural fibre, plastic
  • dimensions: 25 x 30 x 80 cm
  • inventory No.: RZ-106
  • image licensed under: CC BY-SA

Made from plant fibre, Plait is an early piece by Iza Tarasewicz, made shortly after her graduation. What is significant is the material from which it is made — natural and ordinary — as well as its hand-formed shape. The piece took the form of an imprint of a human head with cascading, twisted locks of hair. The artist used it to reflect on materiality — the ambiguous boundary between the animate and the inanimate, the human and the non-human.


Artwork aquired thanks to the support of The ING Polish Art Foundation

Other works by artist in the Zachęta collection

  • Zdjęcie pracy Flowing in Waves Towards Equilibrium
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