RE:touch_ongoing af Barbara Proschak

Galleri Image presents the exhibition RE:touch_ongoing by Barbara Proschak, which consists of a mixture of photographic and pictorial investigations by the German visual artist. All are welcome to the opening on 3 May at 4-6 pm.

In Barbara Proschak’s exhibition RE:touch_ongoing, the artistic process through which the works were created and came to inhabit the gallery space is on full display. With a basis in the photographic image, Proschak’s pieces make use of a number of different materials and techniques to create unique, colourful, visually engaging works, which all make the viewer uniquely aware of the process that went into their creation.

The RE:touching in the title of the exhibition does not refer to digital retouching, in which photo editing software is used to “correct” an image, removing all perceived flaws, from insufficient lighting to blemishes and wrinkles. Rather, in Proschak’s “retouching”, the artist’s hand physically touches the images she has captured again, going through a process of analogue colour correction. But the exhibition also investigates how these images came to be, and the continual artistic process through which each work builds on itself, how even a work that has been framed and hung on the wall is still a part of an ongoing artistic journey, which changes with each new piece, and is altered by the context of the exhibition and the space that inhabits it.

The practice presented revolves around order, categorising, putting in order, measuring and examining as if through a microscope. These displays have an aesthetically scientific quality, reminiscent of how one might display an object from nature in a museum collection. But while some works are presented in ways that may resembles the cold and pragmatic displays of science communication, the presentations themselves are playful, allowing you to make your own associations and conclusions by watching the images of body parts, objects and assorted artistic materials, which have all been categorized, layered, augmented, and displayed.