OBLONG Press Release
Julia Mariscal, ‘on scene 4’, 2009, c-type print, 40,6 x 30,4 cm Image Julia Mariscal ©2009
JULIA MARISCAL HORIZONTAL PLEAT 4–31 December 2009 Private View Thursday 3 December 6–9 PM Oblong Gallery presents the first solo show of Julia Mariscal in London. The show includes a 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. In this installation Julia presents parallel connexions between physicality and ideas, and each material plays an active role to the information shown. 69a SOUTHGATE ROAD LONDON N1 3JS
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Carlos Pastor is a film writer and director based in the South of Spain. He has widely documented ancient rituals from indigenous populations around the word, has and continues taking part in specific rituals from the indigenous in Peru.
Julia Mariscal was born in Barcelona in 1981. This show will be her first solo exhibition in the UK. Recent solo of Mariscal’s work include ‘To chew missing part or Temporal modes’, Grand Palais, Bern (2008). Recent group exhibitions include ‘Oblong Represents, Oblong Gallery, London (2009); ‘Marking/Erasing’, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, London (2008); ‘Winter Light’, Ovada Gallery, Oxford (2008). Julia Mariscal is part a collaborative project with the artist Rita Evans, they perform ‘The Objectifiers’. Recently performed at The Magic, 176, (2009); ‘Late Night Radio’, Tate Britain (2009).
A catalogue will be published to coincide with this exhibition. GALLERY HOURS Wed–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat–Sun 11am–6pm Further Press Information, please contact the gallery on +44 (0)207 354 8330 or write to mail@oblonggallery.com
69a SOUTHGATE ROAD LONDON N1 3JS
+44 (0)207 354 8330
MAIL@OBLONGGALLERY.COM
WWW.OBLONGGALLERY.COM