“Here (later)”
Izabela Pluta
15 Apr → 30 Apr 2005

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.

Pluta's studio practice adopts conflating languages of photography and the nuances they embody as physical objects. She draws largely on finding, fragmenting, translating and reconfiguring things that are both photographed and found. Conceptually anchored in the effects of globalisation and Pluta’s personal experience as a migrant to Australia, her creative pursuit seeks to articulate a fluid mode of moving through, and being in, the world. She uses a discursive photographic vocabulary as a purveyor of temporality, mutability and the impermanence of places.

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.