Bending Galaxies Back

Izabella’s work invites the viewer into uncertainty. Filtering through abstraction, particles of light are collected to create temporary installations; images of the in-between. Anticipating the floating, distance, light—black holes and our eventual collapse. These are reactions that come from bending galaxies back.

Aiming to find connections between stillness, interpretation, and metaphor, events emerge in a sequence. Ripples become a curtain that conceals a galaxy. Figures appear to watch the night sky with gazes that drift to the other side, testing the waters and pulling context from subspace. Questions about our existence seem to be proven by impressions and surfaces.

But if you throw a stone and watch it sink, did you see its whole trajectory?

Utilizing black and white imagery, Izabella’s work pushes against the void. Finding pressure in contrast, tones, and textures we are met with moments on the edge. She captures pictures that are about conjuring images. Rendering things that cannot be seen. It has always been legerdemain to keep you guessing.

As if traveling through interstellar space, these investigations are looking for new perspectives. Mimicking nights spent searching for passages, wells of dark matter, gaps in the illusion. Everything is a placeholder for what is not understood.

By examining the contradictions of these gray areas, she collects scenes that inspect the middle ground in the presence of anticipation, the fear of the unknown.

© Izabella Provan - Depths, 2018
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Depths, 2018

© Izabella Provan - Low Well, 2020
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Low Well, 2020

© Izabella Provan - Surface, 2015
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Surface, 2015

© Izabella Provan - Cheek Imprint, 2014
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Cheek Imprint, 2014

© Izabella Provan - Submerge, 2017
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Submerge, 2017

© Izabella Provan - Almost Floating, 2015
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Almost Floating, 2015

© Izabella Provan - Night stared me in the face, 2019
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Night stared me in the face, 2019

© Izabella Provan - Untitled, OBE, 2020
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Untitled, OBE, 2020

© Izabella Provan - Ceilings will crumble, 2020
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Ceilings will crumble, 2020

© Izabella Provan - And whose mechanism generates despair, 2020
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And whose mechanism generates despair, 2020

© Izabella Provan - Floating, 2016
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Floating, 2016

© Izabella Provan - (of other worlds) we cannot grasp?, 2019
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(of other worlds) we cannot grasp?, 2019

© Izabella Provan - the cast net caught, 2020
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the cast net caught, 2020

© Izabella Provan - re: labyrinth of dark passages (a portal to), 2020
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re: labyrinth of dark passages (a portal to), 2020

© Izabella Provan - Lip Imprint, 2014
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Lip Imprint, 2014

© Izabella Provan - Cut out of space, 2018
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Cut out of space, 2018

© Izabella Provan - Backing Equilibria, 2020
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Backing Equilibria, 2020

© Izabella Provan - Not a single star relieved, 2015
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Not a single star relieved, 2015

© Izabella Provan - Seeking, 2015
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Seeking, 2015

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