2026 | Art Warsaw Villa Róż

For Art Warsaw Villa Róż, Gunia Nowik Gallery presents Limited Good by Iza Tarasewicz, installed outdoors as a sculptural marker within the grounds. Set against the backdrop of the villa’s 19th-century architecture—shaped by layered political and spatial histories—the work introduces a reflective, shifting presence that engages both the site and its visitors.

Limited Good is a large-scale stainless-steel sculpture in the form of a distorted tripod, hovering between a folkloric rural tool and a modernist structure of balance and control. Drawing on the archetype of the trickster or shadow figure, Tarasewicz transfigures this form into a reflective device: its mirrored surface captures and distorts the viewer’s image, turning perception into an unstable, participatory experience. The title references anthropologist George M. Foster’s concept of the “image of limited good,” which describes a worldview shaped by the belief that resources are finite and that one person’s gain comes at another’s expense. Here, the sculpture becomes a meditation on internalized scarcity—how such beliefs persist, shaping social relations, value systems, and collective behavior.

Placed within the grounds of Villa Róż, Limited Good operates as both an object and a lens—bridging rural memory, economic myth, and contemporary reflection. Its polished surface folds the surrounding architecture, light, and movement into a continuously shifting image, inviting viewers into a dynamic encounter with the work and its context. In this way, the sculpture activates the villa as a site of projection and transformation, where past and present, structure and perception, remain in constant negotiation.