Here (Later)
15 - 30 April 2005
Gallery 1

Invite Text:

Izabela Pluta's works explore the function of memory in a social, philosophical, and private domain. She draws parallels between her Polish background and the nature of memory, recollection and cultural identity. Here (later) investigates the places in which we exist psychologically. The work is determined by time and place and the resonance of memory and identity. This installation of large-scale photographic works was developed in Poland and Germany in 2003. The work documents a collection of bar heaters from both hospitals and domestic interiors. They signify melancholy. Their soft quality is transformed from their rigid and formal existence.

Izabela Pluta was born in Poland and migrated to Australia in 1987. She graduated from School of Fine Art, University of Newcastle in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours). Pluta works in photomedia and installation, and exhibits nationally. She currently Lectures in Photography at The National Art School, Sydney and teaches in Digital Arts and Media at The Hunter Institute of Technology.

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