Iza Tarasewicz’s Szablonowatość/Triteness was acquired for the Arsenal Municipal Gallery Collection as a set comprising unusual objects characteristic of the artist’s unique style and the accompanying documentation from two performances: Recycling (2006) and RE-GENERATION (2007). Both took place in Poznań.

The work dates from the Tarasewicz’s period of activity in the art group Penerstwo. Szablonowatość/Triteness, objects and documentation of the performance, are characteristic of the artist’s early period, when her attention was focused on biological forms.

In an interview with Culture.pl, Tarasewicz describes her practice as followed: “Before I went to the faculty of sculpture, I studied medicine for a year. Classical sculpture was never my main point of reference. I was much more interested in experimenting with the material, creating new techniques, all strongly inspired by bio sciences. (…) At the beginning, I used animal tissue in my work – intestines, skin, meat. While working with a formulator, I managed to create a series of pieces that were to do with organics. Thanks to that, I was able to combine my interest in sculpture with my passion for the sciences.”

Iza Tarasewicz, born in 1981 in Białystok, is a performance and visual artist who makes sculptures, installations, drawings, and photographs. Graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture and Spatial Activities at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań (currently known as the UAP). Scholarship holder of the Młoda Polska programme of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2013). Scholarship holder and resident at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin in 2013–2014, funded by the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation. In 2013, she was nominated for the Polityka’s Passport Award in the fine arts category. In 2015, she was awarded the Deutsche Bank Foundation’s Spojrzenia Award. In 2016, Tarasewicz took part in the 32nd Biennale in São Paulo, the 5th International Biennale of Young Art in Moscow, and the 11th Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. In 2018, she represented Poland at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale in collaboration with the CENTRALA Group. The artist is also the winner of the 2019 Bayerischen Kunstförderpreise in the field of fine arts. Her work has been presented at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad.

The artist is a member of Penerstwo, a semi-formal group of artists, former students of the local Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, who graduated circa 2005. The group includes: Wojciech Bąkowski (who is regarded as its unofficial leader), Piotr Bosacki, Tomasz Mróz, Konrad Smoleński, Magdalena Starska, Radek Szlaga, and Iza Tarasewicz.