Gal.la Uriol Jané - Initiationsritual

Gal.la Uriol Jané questions what reality might be. Is another view of reality, beyond our pragmatic, efficiency-oriented perception of the world, possible? Gal.la Uriol Jané attempts liberation from these routinized perspectives: her works are not characterized by individual forming and shaping. Rather, the objects present themselves in a magical universality. They are “things” that fulfill no purpose, despite being made from everyday objects. Yet, the term “made” does not really apply to what these things are. Seemingly, the artist did not use her hands to craft the various materials into objects. The materials themselves appear to have decided, with which other materials (modeling clay, fruit, potatoes, found objects) they come into contact; even how close they come to each other and how they position themselves as neighbors. So the works having nothing to do with readymades in the sense of Duchamp. Thus, Gal.la Uriol Jané eludes a perspective that merely accounts for the counterpoints of subjective and objective. Instead she expands the dimension of relationships between the objects and allows their complexity to shine throug h. In this way, the artist places herself in a terrain that seems equally mysterious as it does literal / factual. No human faces can be discerned, but instead we see strange masks that, in their materiality, personalize the ubiquity of consumption. Similarly, no eyes, no noses, no mouths can be identified in these masks. Nonetheless, inevitably the feeling of being watched emerges. What is this other, that brings our awareness back to ourselves as we look? We sense the desire to give this patchwork of objects a meaningful explanation. Are they relics of another time, of another species, perhaps? No, it is something different!
Katrin Dillkofer

Initiationsritual
Exhibition: 21 June - 2 August 2014
Vernissage: 20 June, 2014, at 7 pm