The Nature of the Beast, 2009

Incorporating the roles of artist, curator, historian, and researcher, Goshka Macuga develops her work in relation to various exhibition contexts. Beginning with in-depth research, Macuga develops connections, juxtapositions, and associations among events, characters, and cultural artifacts, investigating the relationships that link art with history, politics, and memory. Rather than providing answers, her practice is involved with the ability to raise questions and to subject the mechanisms for the production of culture and knowledge to a continuous process of review, from a perspective that restores to the individual the responsibility for collective history. [...]