9th November - 1st December, opens Thursday 8th November 6-8pm
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.
