








Oasis
2025
Oasis presents itself as a quietly confrontational object, a sculptural form that fuses the utilitarian logic of plumbing fixtures with the refined materiality of glazed ceramic and acrylic. Strzelecki constructs a world in miniature where brass taps emerge as though grown from the ceramic body itself, their functional promise rendered absurd and poetic in equal measure. The work sits at a scale that demands close attention, roughly the dimensions of something domestic and holdable, yet its conceptual weight exceeds its physical footprint. The glazed surfaces catch and redistribute light in ways that shift depending on the viewer's position, lending the piece an almost animated quality that resists static reading. Krzysztof Strzelecki has developed a practice preoccupied with systems of desire, access, and the aestheticization of need, and Oasis extends those concerns with particular elegance. The title itself is loaded: an oasis implies scarcity elsewhere, a point of relief within a larger landscape of deprivation or thirst. That the brass taps, objects associated with controlled flow and municipal infrastructure, appear here in a ceramic context stripped of their practical connectivity invites collectors to sit with a productive discomfort. Water is gestured at without being delivered. Strzelecki makes the promise the subject rather than its fulfillment. Signed by the artist and available through Anat Ebgi, Oasis represents a strong entry point into Strzelecki's current body of work, in which sculpture functions less as object and more as compressed argument. The combination of industrial hardware with hand-finished ceramic surfaces reflects a careful material intelligence, one that rewards prolonged looking and sustained engagement over time. For collectors interested in work operating at the intersection of conceptual rigor and tactile pleasure, this piece offers both in uncommonly concentrated form.
- Medium
- Glazed ceramic, brass taps, and acrylic
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Anat EbgiView on map
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