TARWUK are a collaborative duo from Croatia who have been working together since 2014. They make sculptures and installations that conjure unknown rituals and traumatic scenes of war and devastation. They use a range of materials—wax, rope, pigments, wood, plaster—to evoke the feeling of having just stumbled on a story whose totality will never be told. Their works challenge assumptions by imposing personal, speculative stories that create a complex and generative system of meaning, materializing their personal histories into objects. Their work reflects their upbringing, first in socialist Yugoslavia and later in post-socialist Croatia.

Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College Jason Rosenfeld, Ph.D., has curated the exhibitions John Everett Millais (Tate Britain, Van Gogh Museum), Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde (Tate Britain and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), and River Crossings (Olana and Cedar Grove, Hudson and Catskill, New York). He is a co-author of the monograph Cecily Brown (Phaidon, 2020), and a Senior Writer and Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.