Art Karlsruhe 2025
GALLERY FENNA WEHLAU
Christine Brunella, Sheila Furlan, Margit Hartnagel, Andreas Kocks, Dieter Kränzlein, Eberhard Ross and Stefan Wurmer
February 20 – 23, 2025
‘Sheila Furlan sews everyday objects as well as human bodies into a transparent skin of organza fabric. The result is transparent, thin-skinned works whose membrane-like surface allows insights into interior spaces and reveals dialectical interplays between inside and outside, between space, transparency and volume. Subsequently, the object or body slips out of its skin again, leaving behind a fragile cocoon that stores the memory of its original state. But there are also inscriptions from selected letters, secret messages and drawings carefully embroidered like traces of memory on wafer-thin silk fabric and stretched on fragile frames. Both the front and the back of the embroidered works are revealed. Long threads hang from the ends of words and sentences or connect them with each other in a richly textured way. (this is a translated version)
‘The space that the artist Sheila Furlan creates with her objects, installations and photographs is as tangible as the outside and as accessible as the inside of a soap bubble. Objects covered with wafer-thin but sturdy silk or sewn into the surface reveal themselves to the eye and refuse to be accessed. The resulting interstice can also be compared to moments between waking and falling asleep, in which a dreamer can clearly see what he is dreaming. However, his images disappear as soon as he tries to seize them. (this is a translated version)
‚Sheila Furlan is a master of alienation‘ (this is a translated version)
‘There are no drawers for her works…Once they (the visitors) have let themselves in for the thought behind them, many an enraptured smile can be seen when the viewers discover the space in between that the artist presents to them. …With her objects, Sheila Furlan manages to make you start thinking in new ways…’
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