4-31 December 2009

Solo show at Oblong Gallery, London


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Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009


Horizontal pleat, installation view Oblong 2009






























The show includes an installation, which combines moving image, sound, narration, text and objects. Through the illusion and the fragmentation of the information, Mariscal presents a work that lie on the pleasure of decoding. Horizontal Pleat provides a multiplicity of perspectives on the same story, moving between the codes of games -one of the most prehistoric ways of communication – and story telling –a way to help us through our daily lives.

Mixing illusionistic elements and narratives with psychological anxieties not unsual in an artist’s early career, this installation presents a multilayered story presented through different media, departing from a recorded personal conversation between the artist and Carlos Pastor. This fragmented conversation takes place while the speaker drives through the Montgó Mountain. Carlos believes that every man belongs to a mountain. The Montgó is his mountain.

 

“-Now tell me Julia, which one is your mountain?”

The super 8 video playing in a loop is Julia’s answer. But the ‘mountain’ on the video does not exist.

The installation dismounts and adds elements that were mentioned or associated with the setting where the conversation took place, to create subjective relations with no defined centre or direction. Mariscal decides to make use of the language of specific objects to remind of a magician, a movable theatre, foldable structures to create an unsettle display to evoke the idea of the beginning of a process.



Edition of prints:

julia mariscal oblong gallery
..'on scene 4', 2009, 40x30cm, c-type print

..'on scene 1', 2009, 40x30cm, c-type print

..'on scene 3', 2009, 40x30cm, c-type print

..'on scene 3', 2009, 40x30cm, c-type print




Read essay by Lorena Muñoz-Alonso.

catalogue oblong gallery   Catalogue published to coincide with this exhibition.
A5, 34 pages, black and white litograph
€5 / To buy a copy please email: info@juliamariscal.com