RACHEL GARRARD: TIME WILL NOT WAIT FOR US
KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT presents TIME WILL NOT WAIT FOR US by Rachel Garrard. The exhibition brings together Garrard's most recent body of work, showcasing her exploration of abstraction through the intertwining of the natural world, perception, and imagination.
May 31 - June 29, 2024
Garrard's artistic practice encompasses a range of both mediums and techniques, including painting, sculpture, sound, and video. Her work is deeply rooted in extensive research into contemporary science, the fundamental elements of nature, the mathematics of harmonious forms, and the potential energy in material objects.
In her paintings, such as DIRECTION IN SPACE and PASSING THROUGH (both 2024), she layers pigments collected from rocks and minerals directly onto the canvas until abstract universes emerge.
Her use of natural materials seeks to link the terrestrial with inner landscapes, where the geometry, shapes, and colors of the paintings evoke dreamlike spaces, impossible architectures, and indecipherable symbols, functioning as a threshold between the visible and the invisible.
In addition to her paintings, the exhibition includes a series of 24 drawings titled INNER LANDSCAPES, 2024 as well as a series of sculptures made from steel and wood: ASCENSION, PARALLEL WORLDS, and SPACE (all 2021).
The exhibition's theme is informed by the current tensions within global politics and the challenges facing the natural world. Garrard sets these against the potential she sees in cosmic structures as a reliable system that manages to hold everything together.
Garrard’s multifaceted practice integrates painting, sculpture, sound, installation, and video, articulating a view of reality in which the border between the physical and ephemeral is porous and ever-shifting. Her paintings are composed of natural substances, such as quartz, ash, or rock powder pigment, that she has personally collected, hand-ground, and applied to raw linen canvas through a process of fine layering translucent washes of color.