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| My life experiences have influenced my art practice; as a person who
Has moved from one culture to another and lived through cultural and language adaptations, I have been interested in the issue of transience and how it relates to the notions of identity, belonging, and living in a society of global and technological developments. For the last five years I have been working with inflatables and exploring these concerns in relation to the body, memory, temporal, mobile architecture and most recently the environment. The 60’s visionary view of the world, playful design and technological fascination to develop socially responsive forms and create alternative propositions for living expressed in the works of such architectural groups as ARCHIGRAM (UK) and Hans-Rucker-Co (Austria), as well such artists as Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica (Brazil) are part of my work’s lineage. In my early works this search was expressed through a representation of the body at near-life sized scale, which became a symbol-carrier of different emotional states associated with a sense of dislocation. Later on, still working with the body, I became more interested in the sensorial experiences of the body. Focusing especially on the idea of skin as an organ through which we experience the sense of touch, I used rubber latex and made objects and clothes that investigated boundaries of intimacy and closeness, emphasizing the ambivalence of feelings such as desire, pleasure, vulnerability, comfort and discomfort. Presently My work deal with the public/private sphere and explorations of sensorial experiences within social, cultural, architectural and environmental spaces. |
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| Photographs courteous of Ana Rewakowicz 2004 -2006 |
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Ana Rewakowicz is a Canadian/Polish artist/designer and researcher currently living in Montréal. In her works she explores questions of identity as expressed through clothing and habitation. In contrast to the stable mass of monumental sculpture and architecture, her costumes and structures are an air-filled, mobile art form concerned with places and the people that activate them. Incorporating materials such as rubber, polyurethane, reversible foil, fans and solar panels, Rewakowicz harnesses technology to build intimate public experiences and fashions based on function and traveling interiors. Her art has been shown and experienced nationally and internationally in Mexico, USA, France, Belgium, Estonia, Scotland, Germany, Norway, Finland and Mongolia. Most recent exhibitions include: FREEZE, Anchorage, Alaska (2009), Liverpool Biennial, UK (2008), ACT, Stiftensen 3,14, Bergen, Norway (2008), Manif d’art 4 Biennal, Québec, Canada (2008), Wäinö Aaltosen Museo, Turku, Finland (2007), Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany (2006), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2005) and ISEA 2004 Tallinn, Estonia. |
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