Martine Kaczynski

 

 

              

My work explores aspects of two opposing polarities, place and non place, perhaps because I am neither at home nor away from it. What prevails is a sense of dislocation which runs through much of my work. Growing up in Europe, with refugee parents, my past and my present became intertwined when I immigrated to America. I became preoccupied with the building and moving process and was drawn to the investigation of the uncanny within the unstable nature of house and home. How do we build and relocate our lives while striving to recreate the means and markers of settlement. Soon I began to see the quiet unease within the margins of urban spaces and the post industrial culture I found myself in. This Progress continues unabated throwing up ever sharpening questions about borders and territory.

 

Through bisecting the disciplines of sculpture architecture and design I hope to invite the examination of the built environment .

I am fascinated by the objects I make and how their context reflects the paradoxes that exists within our cultural history.

 

My process starts with recording indexing and classifying an object, and works towards the removal of its details. Trying to find the most generic or modular version of itself. They are assuring in their representational recognition but also full of doubts and uncertainty, deprived of their expected function or place. The work is made by myself by hand, learning specific fabrication needs as I go. They become mock ready -mades, simulations or replicas, always life size in scale oscillating between the specific and the generic.