Jagna Ciuchta as a multidisciplinary artist is totally free for her choice of medium (painting, sculpture, video, installation, and happennings). Polysemous and protean her work gives us another view or judgement. She explores various fields such as political, sociological, philosophical and scientifical fields, to enlight the different aspects of human kind.
She brakes the physical or psychological mechanism taht usually build our vision of the world. Her work is based on visual illusion referring to the society illusion. She mocks human instincts through various work : the power quest illustrated by wolf hounds and a dear with a clown nose (« mort de rire »).
The exhibition room plays a capital role within her work. Jagna Ciuchta uses the architecture qualities to create her art. The space becomes the subject and the material of her work. Her creations are evolving constantly through the different exhibitions. These alterations in her work using illusion and anamorphosis create a reflection on our culture and ideology.
Her work deals with different levels of conciousness and undestandings and reveals our weak judgement. In « la peur a de grands yeux », which can make us think about a Roscharch test or the Saint Suaire, Jagna Ciuchta makes a parallel between facts and spirit. She creates close links between the material and abstract world of psyche and space.
The spectator’s vision is part of her artistic work. He is welcomed by the artist to submit his own subjectivity. Jagna Ciuchta builds a serial of experiences in which the spectator is tested like in Rorschach’s work, it is a way to ask « what do you see in this picture ? »
Through her world map symmetrical painting, she asks a clear question to the spectator : « What is the meaning of the world ? ». It is a reflection on political aspects (« we are not evil »), on Bush vision of evil. But also an ironic way to make people react on their identity, what group are we linked with (religious, national, or human kind).
She uses the mass media technic of repetition and denounces a disillusioned world with a humoristic and poetic style.
Emilie Combes