Aaron Ratajczyk RALLY Commission

Aaron Ratajczyk (alumni 2021) was selected as the recipient of the New Contemporaries x RALLY commission, leading to the production of his new video work ‘Plastic Bodies’, 2024.⁠

Set within the steam sauna of a local gym, the balancing act between visibility and obscurity, movement and stillness. Bodies shift between fluidity and solidity, emerging through the textured imagery and pulsating lights. The work captures a partly poetic, partly somatic representation of masculinity, the malleability of the body, and its potential for dissolving boundaries.

Video: extract from Aaron Ratajczyk, Plastic Bodies, 2024, moving image

Aaron Ratajczyk lives and works in London and Berlin. His artistic practice includes video, performance, text and installation. He graduated with an MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University of London. He showed his work at CCA Goldsmiths, London (2022), Tube Gallery, Mallorca (2023), Copeland Gallery, London (2022), Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2022), New Contemporaries at South London Gallery (2021), Haus N, Athens (2021), Tree Art Museum, Beijing (2020), RCA CCA with Nottingham Contemporary (2020), Sheffield Arts Centre (2020), Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2018).⁠