Zuzanna Czebatul

The artist primarily works in the field of sculpture, creating pieces that blur the boundaries between commercial product, architectural relic, and artistic production. Her work explores the complex relationships between the viewer and the object being viewed with a certain sense of humor and obfuscation. Installations appear alternately collapsed, destroyed, deflated, or fragmented, questioning concepts such as monument, symbolic architecture, and ruin. In the garden outside the Villa, lies on the ground the fragment of a work originally created for the Synagogue of Delme in France, partially destroyed during the Second World War and used as an exhibition space since the early 1990s. Vortex Relodead was designed by the artist using the opus sectile technique, which used cut marbles for paving and marquetry decoration in ancient Roman times. This spiral paving seems to suck in all elements around it, including ourselves. Quicksand, trompe-l’oeil, ruins of a monumental past, the work questions the movement and fluctuations of time and history, which modify and transform forms, knowledge, and cultures. In her installation T-Kollaps, inside the Villa, Zuzanna Czebatul fills the space painted in Forest green with inflatable toy columns, replacing classical marble with soft, transparent polyethylene. The color of the walls and floors penetrates the material, making the columns “painted,” as in the time of the splendor of the Acropolis, creating the illusion of a sunset. As the months of exhibition progress, the components deflate and lose their shape, as in an abandoned amusement park.