Study for a sham ruin #4 by Izabela Pluta

Izabela Pluta
Study for a sham ruin #4, 2012
Photo silk-screen on pigment print (framed)
50 × 50 cm
Edition 3/5

Study for a sham ruin (2012) is a set of photographic works that, in parts, incorporate the photo-silkscreen process over the original image resulting in a type of blocking, covering and therefore hiding the original subject with white acrylic. 

This series was an important blueprint for Pluta’s later investigations of prefabricated ruins that have continued to occupy her thinking since that time: architectural follies and ‘eye-catchers’ of classical structures that explore ideas central to constructions of reality, illusion and temporality. It is within this metaphoric space that Pluta explores the psychological resonances implicit in the found structures within this work comprising 10 photographs. 

Izabela Pluta has exhibited widely in Australia at The Art Gallery of NSW, Artspace, Sydney, The Australian Centre for Photography, 55 Sydenham Rd, and UTS Gallery; Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane; 24 HR Art, Darwin; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; Canberra Contemporary Art Space; The Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery; The National Gallery of Victoria, Westspace, Linden Contemporary Arts Centre and Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, among many others. In 2019 Pluta was commissioned to create a significant new work by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for The National 2019: New Australian Art exhibition. She is represented by Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.

Courtesy Izabela Pluta and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert.

Please note, this work will be shipped from Sydney.