Annabelle Czyz

Annabelle Czyz was born in France in 1981, she lives and works in Brussels (BE)

“My work revolves around the phenomenon of installation. This mode of expression allows me to stage different media such as sculpture and video, while also integrating photography and performance. I create environments that invite focused attention, within which the viewer can move freely and interpret the elements as micro-narratives.

The false life of objects. Fiction / Science fiction
To ‘humanize’ the object, to ‘animalize’ the human being.

I aim to transgress notions of scale and to use overlooked available spaces (height, underneath tables…), playing with the physical reality of what is presented in the installations. The presence of hybrid characters moving through the space and manipulating the objects introduces a new way of reading the elements. I question the concepts of reality and simulacrum, using video as a form of testimony to accidents and incidents. The viewer is placed in a position of vulnerability, navigating a path strewn with clues and pitfalls. Are they an intruder, an actor, or a witness?

Maintenance of dependencies.
I work with everyday utilitarian objects, diverted from their original function and their familiar comfort. Furniture appears regularly — especially the table — as a site for work and experimentation. I use materials such as molded plastic objects: reproducible, accessible, and popular. I repeat a principle of fabrication or assembly until it results in overabundance.

I displace the ‘normalities’ associated with how objects function, in order to reveal other potentialities within their characteristics.
What defines normality? Our material possessions, the pursuit of happiness, the fear of discomfort?

A reflection on the power of certain ideas to become dogmas, certain images or individuals to become icons, and certain acts to become rituals.”