Monika Sosnowska

Monika Sosnsowka’s Handrail, a site-specific installation that has been reworked to various environments since 2016, is a re-interpretation of a 1970s plastic-covered steel banister that playfully curves and loops on the wall, divorced it from its functionality and initial purpose. Sosnowska’s sculptures often allude to existing structures, which removed from their original context subvert the notion of the utility that once was. The artist's distinct and autonomous sculptural language is one of distortion and transformation, that alludes to the material changes of her native Poland after the collapse of the Soviet union, which rapidly transformed the political and architectural landscape. By idiosyncratically warping a real object, Sosnowska creates an immersive viewing experience of uncanny familiarity.