In the organizer's words:

JULIA DICK

Vernissage 28.11.
19:00
Music by Grischerr

The works of the painter Julia Dick create immediate effects and lasting impressions through their luminosity and their idiosyncratic formal language. The Cologne-based artist, who also works as an author, consciously creates her large-format paintings in an intuitive and open-ended way.

Her explorations of iconic potentials provide the impetus for spontaneous compositions and associative inspirations; form and content develop a multi-layered coexistence in this free interplay. The pictures play an active role in their creation; the individual steps on the way to the finished painting are based on decisions motivated by the picture, its genesis and its effects.
and its effects. The painting and its creator enter into a relationship of oscillating mediality.
mediality, they change each other.
The paintings thus become witnesses and carriers of a double self-realization. Those who are prepared to surrender themselves to them and the possibilities they offer can dare to attempt to comprehend the process incorporated into the paintings with their own senses, to nourish them with their own associations and perceptions, affects and feelings, to gain or process their own impressions.
Although the sometimes poetic titles of the paintings provide seemingly concrete clues, they never fully clarify the riddle of meaning. The compositions, which oscillate between expressive concretion and figurative allusions, unfold the equally childlike and cryptic symbolism of an experience between dream and memory. It is precisely because of its unreliability that the viewer is given the opportunity to enter into their own process of creating meaning. In the process of reception, the images emancipate themselves from the definitions inscribed in them.

Instead of revealing the intimacy of the original encounter, they offer to open a new chapter together. In this sense, the authorial process is not aimed at the transfer of information, but at the bundling and transfer of creative forces in and through the image.
It gains subjective vitality as an actor with its own, multifaceted agenda, which is actualized in the encounters with the viewers. It goes without saying that this autonomy eludes any ontological solidification. As a projection of an existential need, it remains a promise that can only be fulfilled on the condition that it is taken seriously. Or even just a useful fiction.
In any case, this finding also applies to the idea of autonomy per se and its underlying notions of freedom.
underlying notions of freedom. The interaction with the images thus opens up a
a game of reflection that also extends to the possibilities of human subjectivity.
subjectivity. From them emanates the peculiar power to become involved as co-authors in the
the autofictional process of the viewer. The images become the artistic
vehicles of an experience that does not dwell on things, but also takes the viewers themselves as its subject.
the viewers themselves.

Text: frz torky