“home(land)”
Izabela Pluta
9 Nov → 1 Dec 2007

home(land) investigates the conjuring of place by exploring the materiality and physicality of photographic wallpaper. Cultures seem ever more transient, moving back and forth between places. This work explores the state of flux: the attachment and nostalgia for the past, manifested through physical spaces in the present.

Residing somewhere between used and displaced, the interstitial space within the images contain a foreign narrative and history, one that transcends the importance of distinct placement, and where the images become a universal place. They seek human presence, and at the same time are void of it and become both distant and familiar.

Izabela Pluta was born in Warsaw, Poland, and migrated to Australia in 1987. She is currently based in Sydney and lectures in Photography at The National Art School, Sydney and College of Fine Arts, UNSW. She is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at The College of Fine Arts, UNSW.

The exhibition was assisted by The Janet Holmes á Court Artists' Grant. The Janet Holmes á Court Artists' Grant is a NAVA initiative, made possible through the generous sponsorship of Mrs Janet Holmes á Court and the support of the Visual Arts Board, Australia Council for the Arts.