Juliana Ortiz : PostPost

Press Release

With POSTPOST, Juliana Ortiz takes up aspects of her September exhibition POST and carries her statement to new extremes in a highly reduced way.

Corresponding to the recurring painting 'Bett', a voluminous construction made of several canvases, electric cables, and mirrors makes its appearance. The continuous effort to focus on the inner and outer worlds involves repeated failures, resulting in a perpetually changing, distorted image of the world and an indispensable interplay between sharp and fuzzy definition. The video image 'Auge' thematically reverts to the everyday. It presents the observer with a glossy photograph of the artist's right eye, whose iris is represented in a video. The painted interior of a globe fills up with beluga lentils, thus forming the pupil. The playback of this sequence is looped forward and backward to suggest attempts at optical focusing, selective percipience, and communication. Many lenses/lentils, many impressions create complex, multifarious imagery of the self and the vis-à-vis.

Juliana Ortiz, born in Osnabrück, Germany, 1976, lives and works in Leipzig. 1996-2000 Studied Art Pedagogy and German philology, University of Osnabrück. 1999-2000 Stay abroad in Barcelona, Spain. 2000-2004 Studied Painting and Graphic Arts, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, class of Prof. Sighard Gille. 2004 Diploma. Solo exhibitions: 2005, 2006 & 2008 Galerie Emmanuel Post, Leipzig; 2007 Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt; 2008 Marella Gallery, Milan. Group exhibitions: 2004 Union Gallery, London; maerzgalerie, Leipzig; 2006 Laden für Nichts, Leipzig; Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan; Galerie der Stadt Wels, Wels; Arario Gallery, Cheonan, Korea; Kunstverein Speyer; 2007 Galerie Tedden-Garage/Kunstverein Oberhausen; Meisterhaus Kandinsky/Klee, Dessau; Villa Oppenheim, Berlin; 2008 Kunstverein Leipzig.