Izabela Pluta

What is it that draws you to ruins?

I became interested in ruins as visual depictions of estrangement, separation and detachment from the flow of time. I started drawing upon them as visual references through found material, like photographs and books. I have developed a layered and complicated relationship with ruins and photography that, in my mind, play off one another.

Is it the other, previous life of ruins that interests you or is it something else?

There is a metamorphosis that happens with ruins, when they change from their original form. It is this aesthetic and allegorical potential that I am drawn to in these kinds of places. Philosophically, ruins are symbolic and conjure up a kind of sublime that