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Izabela Pluta (b.1979): Artist
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2022
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Izabela Pluta’s studio practice embraces photography as a way of interpreting and re-conceptualising the function that images have in the present. Negotiating the possibilities of how material forms come together, 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 own personal experience as a migrant to Australia, her creative pursuit seeks to articulate a fluid mode of moving through, and being in, the world.
For this series of works Pluta has reassembled old art school easels into armature for cyanotype photographs of clouds. These are enlargements of photo collages derived from cyanotypes the artist made of pages pulled from Cloud Study: A Pictorial Guide (1960). This was part of an attempt to identify the climatic conditions the day she and her family emigrated from Poland to Australia in 1987, deriving from a photo her father took from the plane window.
The work references immigrant stories, weather and cloud patterns, moments in time, collapsing of time.
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aluminium and a repurposed timber ease
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