Martine Kaczynski: Daily Deviation
TurnPark Garage Gallery
August 16th – October 31 st
Deviation is a selection of work which challenges and navigates our psychological
interaction with architecture and the semiotics of the constructed world. Recreating
archetypal forms which stray from normal function and origin, Kaczynski’s work
examines the unstable nature of house and home, and the fragility of our perceived status
and security.
Essential elements of civic and domestic architectural vernacular are distilled and stylized.
Would-be fences, guard rails, signs, and canopied shelters examine our relationship to
symbolic objects and all that they promise.
The work is best described by the word unheimlich, which literally means Not Homely; and
refers to those things that should offer safety and comfort yet do the opposite. The Uncanny
is a thread that runs through much of the work and is rooted in Kaczynski’s past.
Raised in a community of refugee Holocaust survivors the work reflects the residue of that
history, where permanence and stability were seen as temporary and not to be trusted.