Daze at Kurator Rapperswil Switzerland
Zuzanna Czebatul’s (*1986, DE) sculptures dismantle the ideological narratives of the triumphant and heroic to the point of collapse. For this exhibition, the artist was commissioned to produce a new iteration of her large-scale sculpture Twister (2018), two tightly embraced obelisks initially proposed as a public monument for the city of Warsaw, whose urban landscape has been shaped by the dominant sculptural and architectural manifestations of the patriarchal nation-state to this present day. In Daze (2020), the phallic monuments and symbols of power are still affectionately entangled and have now moved into the horizontal. An homage to Madelon Vriesendorp’s painting Flagrant Delit (1978, English: Flagrant Crime) depicting a post coitus scene between the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building used for the book cover of Rem Koolhaas’s publication Delirious New York (1978), Czebatul’s most recent sculpture has been conceived during a time that sees monuments of colonial violence torn down and demolished across the world, and gives rise to the formation of transnational solidarity opposing the recent anti-LGBT+ politics in Poland targeting queer activists for putting rainbow flags on public monuments throughout the country. In this light, Czebatul’s passionately entangled obelisks become an emblematic symbol for the desire of transmitting and monumentalizing.
Daze at Kurator Rapperswil Switzerland
Zuzanna Czebatul’s (*1986, DE) sculptures dismantle the ideological narratives of the
triumphant and heroic to the point of collapse. For this exhibition, the artist was commissioned
to produce a new iteration of her large-scale sculpture Twister (2018), two tightly embraced
obelisks initially proposed as a public monument for the city of Warsaw, whose urban landscape
has been shaped by the dominant sculptural and architectural manifestations of the patriarchal
nation-state to this present day. In Daze (2020), the phallic monuments and symbols of power
are still affectionately entangled and have now moved into the horizontal. An homage to
Madelon Vriesendorp’s painting Flagrant Delit (1978, English: Flagrant Crime) depicting a post
coitus scene between the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building used for the book
cover of Rem Koolhaas’s publication Delirious New York (1978), Czebatul’s most recent sculpture
has been conceived during a time that sees monuments of colonial violence torn down and
demolished across the world, and gives rise to the formation of transnational solidarity opposing
the recent anti-LGBT+ politics in Poland targeting queer activists for putting rainbow flags on
public monuments throughout the country. In this light, Czebatul’s passionately entangled
obelisks become an emblematic symbol for the desire of transmitting and monumentalizing.