Iza Tarasewicz
Eternal Machine
Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2024
Sep 26 – Nov 23, 2024
Opening hours:
WGW 2024, Thu – Sun: 11 am – 7 pm
Regular hours, Tue – Sat: 12 – 6 pm
We are pleased to feature Eternal Machine, a second solo exhibition by Iza Tarasewicz at Gunia Nowik Gallery, as part of the Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2024. The show delves into the intricate interplay between human identity, technology, and environmental awareness.
Amid rising social fragmentation and market-driven encroachments on life, Eternal Machine prompts a vital reassessment of the individual 'self' within a mosaic of collective histories, experiences, and desires. As global challenges like climate change, the rise of fascism, and extreme individualism persist,
Tarasewicz's work encourages a reimagining of our connections to an increasingly privatized and divided world. Hand-dyed plant fibers, organic pigments, steel, brass, silicone – Eternal Machine merges natural and engineered elements to reflect the evolving integration of machines, humans, and technologies. Through themes like 'Agropunk' and 'Technopunk', the exhibition paints a narrative of community dissolution and potential reconstruction. It invites us to reconsider the notion of shared space in today’s world and a redefinition of human limits and our interactions with both animate and inanimate surroundings.
a complex clock associating all the times
Disappearance is a process, Time’s Mistress.
There are no rules or deadlines.
Eternal machine! You remain stable, but sometimes you fall.
Collapse is perpetuated by the persistence of certain states between flows and fluxes, winds and liquids.
A decision that you are forced to make is not a decision.
Balanced level-headedness.
Global stability of flowing movements.
Matter is swinging.
The less you move, the less the invariant is swept away.
Some people already see the flames.
Others don’t even smell the smoke.
Life on Earth is evil.
I did love you once.
It is stable? Yes.
It is unstable? Yes, again.
Unstable? Yes, again.
The more you move, the more the fall prevails over equilibrium.
Iza Tarasewicz
