This exhibition explores Pluta’s fascination with follies; ‘eye-catchers’ that resemble classical structures. Conceived while on a residency in Northern Ireland, the artist set out to locate various prefabricated ruins that date back to eighteenth-century England.
For Pluta, the folly becomes a symbolic structure capable of manipulating an artificial paradise in which the viewer becomes lodged in multiple contexts simultaneously. While concerned with these specific structures, ‘Study for a sham ruin’ metaphorically explores temporal depth, illusion, artifice and spatial distance.
Galerie pompom
April 10 to May 5, 2012
Izabela Pluta, Untitled #7 (Study for a sham ruin), 2012, pigment ink-jet print on non-woven giclée paper,
50 x 50cm. Courtesy the artist and Galerie pompom, Sydney.
