CAROLA ZECH
REFLECTIONS

CAROLA ZECH – REFLECTIONS is an exhibition featuring recent works by Carola Zech where the artist explores light, color, forms and reflections through different mediums and materials.

September 27 to November 20, 2023

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Images are bodies that touch each other. The fact that they affect each other mutually when they touch and are transformed in the reciprocal game of their proximity is evidence of their senses. Images do not remain the same and the reason for this instability is that they exist in relation to others. They are relational bodies.
These statements are at the basis of the systems that Carola Zech has been producing for years. Her work seems to say that in the domain of sensitive, everything is provisional. Everything is subject to the effects of attraction and rejection produced by the contiguity of things. From this perspective, to invent is to produce areas of contact and this conception of the creative task gives rise to its own gallery of poetic figures: the imminence of displacement, the precarious balance, the power of movement that inhabits the intervals.

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Among all these perceptions, perhaps the most important in Zech’s work is the following: the closure of clear limits that continues to be denied and refuted by the affective power of colors. What seems complete and given once and for all is also the contingent result of an encounter. Color is a process.
The works we see are located within the scope of these aesthetic concerns. There are laminas that interpose others, revealing variable portions of the figures and producing new spaces of color. There are areas of interaction between forms that seem unanchored, released into a game of contact governed by an arcane magnetic principle. There are cut shapes, interrupted in the frame, while they seem to escape from their vital area. There are forms that flicker with others with the fleeting brilliance of the unrepeatable.

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Other recent works from Zech seem governed by the intention of showing a second principle, compatible and complementary with its praise of instability. It is the broad gesture of the catalog: an ordered repertoire of the materials with which she works, a systematic exhibition of materiality endowed with singular properties in each case. There are reflective, iridescent, translucent, metallic qualities. What governs this new gesture is not the will to control a territory. It is simply the prelude to new combinations: the preparation of a new theater, so that new encounters can find their place.
Juan Cruz Pedroni