Monika Grzymala

Monika Grzymala is based in Berlin, she makes her installations using entirely black tape. She takes up the entire gallery, changing the way visitors interact with the space. Her work is site-specific as with the rest of her series.
She describes her work as more akin to drawing than installation, viewing the works as complex drawings that leave the walls to take over the surrounding space.
She also stresses the performative nature of the work, with each piece requiring a hugh physical effort to create. "Whenever I leave a work, I feel as if I leave a part of me, a part of my body behind," she says "there's a connection - an invisible line from Berlin to London to New York."
Grzymala used to work with coloured tape, but has now decided to work entirely with black tape, creating bold lines.

Sculpture

This was my first attempt at using rope and string, I using the environment around me so that a lot of it was off the ground. I feel that it does look like an automatic drawing, and the photos especially look quite effective.

Sculpture affected by environment

These are my first attempts at creating sculpture in an automatic way. I feel that they would have been more effective the more I layered the string and colours, yet I feel the way I left it, it wasn't too overwhelming and you could still make out individual lines.

As I left my Sculptures up in the studio for a couple days, when I went back to them I noticed that spiders had started making webs in-between some of my lines. I thought this was really effective, as the sculpture itself looked a bit like a spider web due to all the intricate lines. 

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Sculpture using rope and string

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Thread on Cartilage paper
594x841mm

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4 prints and collograph all at 210x297mm

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6 biro drawings all at 210x297mm

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Indian ink on cartilage paper at 594x841mm

Sculpture

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Rope and string sculpture

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Acrylic on cartilage paper
594x841mm