Tomasz Matuszak

Tomasz Matuszak works in the field of installation, sculpture, photography, video and public intervention. Many of his works are based on a sustained involvement with the environment of the gallery or any given public space. By adding a specific comment to ‘space’, works are integrated within it, creating a new or different meaning to habitual perceptions. Matuszak’s work always answers to the existing situation by consciously ‘borrowing’ elements from existing spaces to construct new works which are then re-immersed in the same space. In recent years Matuszak has been trying to penetrate the subject in different ways by constructing works in smaller or larger degrees of scale based on tautological action. ‘Cutting out’ and ‘strengthening’ fragments of space, his aim is to challenge the way we look at everyday objects by generating new meanings, references and suggestions. Most of his works are therefore site- specific and seek to energize a space (indoor or outdoor), or a social or political situation, by making these spaces a key component of the viewer’s experience.