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JENNY POLAK

Art work from Coppenhagen
Art work from Ithaca

 

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Polak’s related web and drawing projects also inhabit an intersection of art and design. She has invented a fictional interior design company, Design for the Alien Within, to frame her domestic work. It appears to
market furniture units with human hiding spaces in them. Posing as modern furniture or infrastructural
elements, the works infuse design logic with the dangers of today’s immigration politics. The cultural
resonances of visibility and secrecy and the cheery terms of interior design consumption recast immigrantcitizen struggles at home, at work, and in prison. In alluding to illegal assistance of undocumented and stateless people, the artist draws on my her own life as a resident alien, her migratory family history as well as current events. Polak comes from England and a family history of hiding and migration drives her work’s preoccupation. She has shown widely and is a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Future of the Present Award and a Digital Matrix Award among others. She currently lives and works in New York City.

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