Entanglement
Rondo Sztuki
Katowice, 2025
Curated by: Zofia Małysa-Janczy
The installation situates itself at the intersection of past, present, and future, comprising a series of sculptures and objects that weave together personal and collective histories. Drawing on Donna Haraway’s concept of “templates for possible worlds and patterns for the kinds of times we might live in; material-semiotic renderings of worlds that have been, are, or might yet be,” the works include studies of plant- and animal-based biomaterials originating from the artist’s ancestral land, now incorporated as natural materiality within the interiority of the installations.
Elements reflect peasant ancestry, the expropriation of family land by the state, and intimate traces of domestic life—such as a bush digitally scanned from a grandmother’s land, once inhabited a century ago by both humans and animals.
The work resonates with ongoing efforts to reclaim the ancestral room of the grandmother’s house, a process spanning decades, and evokes the close yet distant relationships between humans, land, and non-human life. In this way, the installation becomes an exploration of entanglement, memory, and the material-semiotic threads connecting worlds past, present, and speculative.