An Ongoing Performance
<p>I perceive Jagna Ciuchta’s work as a dynamic system full of instabilities: she is an artist – painter, photographer, installation artist – but also a curator, sometimes a choreographer, at other times a watchful host. Her individual artworks – whether classic large-scale paintings, or more or less experimental photographs, or even the dense installations she arranges – individually fail to capture the nature of her work. Ciuchta seems to be looking for flows and resonances between them, and her strategy seems to be not to settle into any medium, language, or artistic identity: a constant self-occlusion. However, this is not a result of modesty or indecision. On the contrary, this is a deliberate (or rather intuited) strategy to undermine the established divisions, hierarchies, conventions and orders. Precisely in search of these transgressions (not so much rejecting structures as questioning them), the artist has made several strategic decisions which, although subtle, build a kind of continuity and a nomadic, never unambiguous identity of this multi-layered oeuvre. What are these decisions?…</p>
Authors: Marta Dziewańska
Artists: Jagna Ciuchta
Translators: Krystyna Mazur
Part of: TextWork
ISSN: 27269949