PRESS RELEASE

Prelude to an other - Sarah Jane Gorlitz

MFA graduation exhibition Malmö Art Academy April 23 – May 7, 2011

It’s as if you are a magnet approaching an opposing magnetized field. The space between you is felt – you may be concentrating on reaching that other point but it is the presence of the distance that separates you that you feel most. You instinctively move to the center of its apex, feeling that this is the entrance. You push against that force, but it only deflects you to the side. It is almost impossible to balance here, and when you slide over it, you are hurled down an ever-unpredictable path. Yet you continue to try, and your movements may become desperate, calm or playful, passes over the unreachable. Of course, you can enter this space if you turn your back, but being stuck in this closeness facing out is a different situation entirely. Here you no longer face the light, in this passive resignation you have lost your dynamic engagement – it is much less exciting and dangerously difficult to be released.
The exhibition will present paintings, collage and other media that suggest a potential for engagement, through visual experience.