Raman Tratsiuk, Sierpy, 2022

digital print, aluminum plate, 42 x 60 cm,
ed. 1/5

"I see Raman Tratsyuk's sickles precisely as an example of contemporary political abstraction, abstract art dealing with politics, involved in it. The artist addresses the current issues of our time by expressing himself through the decoratively treated and multiplied motif of the sickle, which is turned into a repetitive abstract symbolic form. He does not use documentary photographs of social and political events in his art, but reduces his reflection to a single ambiguous shape with broad connotations. This is the essence of the action of art, which is completely different from the literalness of language, for the image contains synthesis, multiple positions, ambiguity, irrationality and haze of meaning, all while making meaning possible. In this sense, Sierps as a political abstraction are signs of hope and defeat, revolution and reaction, energy and death, as the artist wants - of femininity, but also of the destructive patriarchal system. Paradoxically, in this multiplicity, the Sierps aesthetically seductive and mesmerizing effectively cut the surface of our ideological reality."
Pawel Leszkowicz

link to text:

https://magazynszum.pl/sierpy-ramana-tratsiuka-w-zielonogorskiej-galerii-rektorat/

BIOGRAM:
Raman Tratsiuk
Born in 1981 in Brest (Belarus). Lives and works in Poznan. Since 1998, together with Volha Maslouska, co-founder of the Bergamot group.
Graduate of Painting (2004) and Intermedia (2007) at UAP. In 2012 he defended his doctorate in fine arts at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at UAP.
From 2004-2018, together with Prof. Izabella Gustowska, he co-founded the Studio of Film and Performative Activities at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication at UAP.
Since 2018 - assistant professor at the Faculty of Art Education and Curating at UAP.
As an artist, he is interested in performativity, interaction between the artist and the viewer, exploring issues of image and self-presentation in the media and the internet, discovering the signs of art in the everyday environment and also working with ready-made objects. Curator of more than 20 exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art. Works have been presented at the Zachęta National Art Gallery, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Poznań, National Museum in Lublin, St-Etienne Metropole Musée d'Art Moderne, Museum of Modern Art MUMOK, European Media Art Festival, European Biennale of Contemporary Art Manifesta 9, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, among others.
The works are in the collection of the National Museum in Lublin, private collections in the USA, Switzerland, England, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Belarus.