occasional urges

occasional urges brings together works by Sophronia Cook, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė, Rindon Johnson, and David Reed, exploring how temporal presence is captured and expressed through gestures, bodily movements, and shifting states within the artworks. The interplay of transparency and presence, along with the layering of these elements, foregrounds processual approaches shaped by prior experiences, thoughts, and memories, where the mutability of states becomes a central theme.

David Reed (*1946 in San Diego, US) draws strong inspiration from the movement of film, transforming the expressive gesture of paint application into an artificially controlled depiction of the brushstroke, built up through layers of overlaying and sanding down paint. His large-scale painting #659 (Vice and Reflection) references the TV series "Miami Vice", exploring the interplay between time, movement, and perception by adopting the compositional strategies of film and translating them onto the canvas.

Dorota Gawęda (*1986 in Lubin, PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (*1987 in Kaunas, LT) investigate the movement of the body through space, creating sculptural fragments of memory where performance, image, and sensual experiences overlap. Their sculpture Censer 1 (2023) releases the scent of a past performance, synthetically recreated to olfactorily transmit memories of the collective event.

The aluminum sculptures by Sophronia Cook (*1992 in Sanger, US) and Rindon Johnson (*1990 on the unceded territories of the Ohlone people) embody the ephemerality of bodies, transforming them into another temporality through shifts in materiality. Johnson's leather wall objects are exposed to weather conditions for months, leaving traces on the hides, while Cook's paintings undergo a transformation through the constant revisiting of elements from earlier works.

The exhibition thus presents works that dissolve linear narratives on multiple levels, making time experientially layered within the space.

Opening | Munich
Wednesday 13 November

7 – 9 pm

Winterbreak
21 December 2024 – 6 January 2025