This first monograph on the work of Jagna Ciuchta looks back on the past thirteen years of a polymorphic practice that continuously reconfigures itself by feeding off of previous projects and their documentation. Since 2011, her work has expanded and become more complex through the inclusion of other artists in her often-evolving installations. In the form of exhibitions, photographs, and occasionally fictional texts, Ciuchta’s works set up a confusion of temporalities, spaces, registers, self and others in a kind of ambivalent hospitality.

Dilated I, Liquid Images and Carnivorous Plants reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of Ciuchta’s work. It opens with a visual essay which, by combining contributions by invited artists with images from Ciuchta’s own photographic archive, reiterates the experience of shared authorship that defines her work. It then gathers six new essays examining key moments in her work, her process, methodologies and work ethic together with twenty portfolios of images organized to reflect the singularity of each of the artist’s projects.

Texts: Mathilde Belouali, Marta Dziewańska, Dominique Figarella, Stéphanie Garzanti, Maud Jacquin, Émilie Notéris
Publishers: Mousse Publishing & Bétonsalon
Edited by: Maud Jacquin & Émilie Renard
Designed by: Martha Salimbeni