Anastazja Palczukiewicz
December 2024
Anastazja Palczukiewicz (b. 1994 Belarus) is based in Paris. She works with mixed media, including sculpture, installation, video, and sound. In her works, she addresses the concept of identity through research on the connections between the subject and the form of power, where the notions of memory, agency, and voice become important. Addressing issues of geopolitics, she explores how global crises and conflicts affect changes and transformations in local and regional contexts.
Focusing on working with materials and creating forms that include found and man-made, the artist creates connections between the stamped, produced, and synthetic, thereby constructing topologies of relationships between objects originating from material culture.
In 2023, Anastazja worked on the project "Displaced", which weaves two narratives: the history of the former German city of Nova Ruda and the history of an apple orchard in Western Belarus, which her family acquired from repatriates who left Belarus under the resettlement program from the USSR in the 1950s. The project was presented as a site-specific installation of three sculptures on which the artist worked at a former weaving factory.
In the same year, she worked on the Cycle project, where aluminium became the main material, as a metal endowed with the ability to recycle but which is not included in the metabolism of any living being. Reflecting on the metabolism of technological reproduction and its connection with the processes of life, dying, and rebirth, the artist focuses not so much on working with the material as such but on fixing changes in states, referring to the concept of deformation through the topology of successive influences.
In 2023, Anastazja worked on the project "Displaced", which weaves two narratives: the history of the former German city of Nova Ruda and the history of an apple orchard in Western Belarus, which her family acquired from repatriates who left Belarus under the resettlement program from the USSR in the 1950s. The project was presented as a site-specific installation of three sculptures on which the artist worked at a former weaving factory.
In the same year, she worked on the Cycle project, where aluminium became the main material, as a metal endowed with the ability to recycle but which is not included in the metabolism of any living being. Reflecting on the metabolism of technological reproduction and its connection with the processes of life, dying, and rebirth, the artist focuses not so much on working with the material as such but on fixing changes in states, referring to the concept of deformation through the topology of successive influences.
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In the same year, she worked on the Cycle project, where aluminium became the main material, as a metal endowed with the ability to recycle but which is not included in the metabolism of any living being. Reflecting on the metabolism of technological reproduction and its connection with the processes of life, dying, and rebirth, the artist focuses not so much on working with the material as such but on fixing changes in states, referring to the concept of deformation through the topology of successive influences.
In the work "Interlink" in 2022, Anastazja used dust as a material that is a quasi-object, an amorphous and formless substance. Where dust acquires agency precisely through its passivity and formlessness, by creating its desert integrity from micro fragments, microparticles of the atmosphere, and life, it gives the surface the power to transform and ensures the integrity of disparate objects among themselves.
Anastazja graduated from Grodno State College of Arts with a degree in design, as well as from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno with a degree in sociology. She also studied at The Rodchenko Art School and The Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy.
The artist has participated in international group exhibitions in Poland, France, and Germany. In 2023, Anastasia worked at the art residence NOWA Art Space (Nowa Ruda, Poland), and in 2024 at the art residence ZK/U (Berlin, Germany).
In the work "Interlink" in 2022, Anastazja used dust as a material that is a quasi-object, an amorphous and formless substance. Where dust acquires agency precisely through its passivity and formlessness, by creating its desert integrity from micro fragments, microparticles of the atmosphere, and life, it gives the surface the power to transform and ensures the integrity of disparate objects among themselves.
Anastazja graduated from Grodno State College of Arts with a degree in design, as well as from Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno with a degree in sociology. She also studied at The Rodchenko Art School and The Ecole nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy.
The artist has participated in international group exhibitions in Poland, France, and Germany. In 2023, Anastasia worked at the art residence NOWA Art Space (Nowa Ruda, Poland), and in 2024 at the art residence ZK/U (Berlin, Germany).