Iza Koczanowska – artist and researcher – Berlin / Amsterdam
Entanglement, 2025
Rondo Sztuki
Katowice
Curated by: Zofia Małysa-Janczy
An entanglement moves through the intimacies of practice, grounded in memory and place where no written traces exist, but where histories were transmitted orally and remain sensorially present.
The rural ground once inhabited by peasant ancestors and animal life coexisting under the same roof, a land that remains legally and materially unresolved across four generations, with ownership circulating through archival and juridical systems, returns as a legacy gift, an unstable condition of inheritance activated through field recordings, scanning, and embodied engagement, alongside an ongoing negotiation with systems of land registration and its material claims.
Collapsing structures, memory of place, and scanned fragments, where wire-and-straw construction techniques and material re-assemblages do not perform history but press against its silences, entangling past and present as a lived and ongoing condition in which forms of habitation and origin continue to resonate - where does land end and identity begin when place, inheritance, and belonging remain unresolved?