IZABELA CHAMCZYK | Beyond the physical object
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Finalist at the International Open Call Competition. A collaboration of Florence Biennale, Art Market Magazine, and Lens Magazine.
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My art activity is beyond the physical object and directly reaches the human body through touch, taste, and other senses. Therefore, the observation of the process is, from my point of view, the most essential part of my art journey.
In my works, I’m turning on the process of crystallization, rotting, growing, dying, destruction, drying, breaking, racking, smelling. Objects, which I’m creating, are breaking very often, and the audience can participate in this process through touch, formation, deformation, or just by observing the changes.
It is a vital part for me to pay attention to the simple art activity. The whole journey is essential, not only the final stage of the process but also the creation time, not just the object.
I’m inspired by unknown areas, crossing borders, getting satisfaction from little experiences, creating extreme situations, and pushing emotions to the limits – subtle and at the same time disarming.
The base of all my actions is human and time.
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IZABELA CHAMCZYK
Izabela Chamczyk, Born in 1980, is a painter and a performance artist who constantly tries to rebel through her projects. She lives and works in Warsaw, graduated in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and using several media and continuously redefines the boundaries.
Emotions are an essential element of Chamczyk’s idea of art. One of such projects was the “Twelve-month War,” created in 2013. The action explored the issues connected with the artist’s place on the art market and in the circles of cultural institutions, as well as those that searching for space, recognition for her own art, and uncompromising confrontation with the viewer entails.
Chamczyk was triple awarded scholarships by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in Poland, And she is also a finalist of some of the most prestigious competitions in Poland, including the 10th Geppert Competition in Wroclaw, the 6th Triennial of Young Artists in Orońsko, and a Vordemberge – Gildewart competition in MOCAK.
Chamczyk’s work has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions. She participated in dozens of group shows, including at the SCC Gallery in Isfahan, Iran, the Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej in Warsaw, the Entropia Gallery, and Muzeum Nowoczesne in Wrocław, Poland, the GSW in Opole, the BWA in Zielona Góra, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Toruń, the Festival in Sokołowsko, the ERARTA ( St Petersburg Museum of Contemporary Art). Her works of art are also in prestigious private and public collections worldwide, including at the PKO BP bank, Ergo Hestia, Andels Art, Dolnośląska Zachęta, and CSW Toruń.
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