Dominika Tylcz

Dominika Tylcz is a curator and writer. They currently serve as a Curatorial Associate in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. They held positions at the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; New Museum, New York, and Stefan Gierowski Foundation, Warszawa, Poland. Their writing has been published in catalogues and magazines, including The Brooklyn Rail, Impulse Magazine, and BOMB Magazine.

Technologies of Resistance

Featured artists:

Vicky Colombet (1004)
Mahmoud Hamadani (710)
Kate Hopkins (614)
Tamiko Kawata (413)
Armita Raafat (801)
Marjorie Welish (903)
Yu-Wen Wu (605)

The artists selected for this pathway, working in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, anchor their practices in undaunted commitment to the generative power of repetition. Within the constraints of their chosen parameters, their work fans out in astonishing variation achieved through persistent proliferation of a mark, a gesture, a form, or an idea. This kind of sustained investigation of their chosen motif peels away new layers of its meaning as minute differences accumulate into flickering constellations that reward deep engagement. The formal operation becomes a way of profound evaluation of the contexts from which the object of their artistic contemplation arose: visual codes, natural structures, architecture, cultural heritage, overlooked objects, or linear geometry. Repetition also brings about a temporal rupture, in which progression from present to future becomes protracted due to the thoroughgoing persistence of an idea that simply does not go away. In that iterative gap, where perception is heightened by subtle variation, both metaphor and deconstruction can occur. The result, in each case, is mesmerizing and revelatory.