Handle With Care. Navigating Fragile Futures
sic! Elephanthouse•Aug 31, 2025 — Oct 11, 2025
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In the installation Kollapsmaschine (2025), the artist deconstructs the Tesla Cybertruck, which is a symbol of capitalist faith in technology as a means of combatting the apocalypse. Conceived as a bulletproof fortress on wheels, the vehicle loses its hardness in Raczyńska’s vision when it is clad in black latex, becoming akin to soft, porous skin. Instead of triumph, there is vulnerability; instead of armour, there is carnality. The artist challenges the idea of the car as a symbol of freedom and control, revealing its hidden function of masking social dependencies, oppression and violence.
This ambivalent dimension of matter is also present in the Soft Burden, Hard Shell (2025) object. Suspended in space, the ‘corset-armour’ combines opposites: femininity and masculinity, nature and technology, softness and hardness. Decorated with forget-me-nots embedded in resin, it appears to have been extracted from a river or falle…
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Handle With Care. Navigating Fragile Futures
sic! Elephanthouse•Aug 31, 2025 — Oct 11, 2025
Press Release
In the installation Kollapsmaschine (2025), the artist deconstructs the Tesla Cybertruck, which is a symbol of capitalist faith in technology as a means of combatting the apocalypse. Conceived as a bulletproof fortress on wheels, the vehicle loses its hardness in Raczyńska’s vision when it is clad in black latex, becoming akin to soft, porous skin. Instead of triumph, there is vulnerability; instead of armour, there is carnality. The artist challenges the idea of the car as a symbol of freedom and control, revealing its hidden function of masking social dependencies, oppression and violence.
This ambivalent dimension of matter is also present in the Soft Burden, Hard Shell (2025) object. Suspended in space, the ‘corset-armour’ combines opposites: femininity and masculinity, nature and technology, softness and hardness. Decorated with forget-me-nots embedded in resin, it appears to have been extracted from a river or falle…
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