Ulrich Vogl | DOMESTICATION
Le Guern Gallery | Warschau, Warsaw
23 April - 8 June 2024
The solo show consists of many new sculptural works that all circle around the home, homeland, nation and interior, its beauties, oddities and its dangers.
"It is not we who define objects, but they define us. Instead of merely reflecting the meanings once assigned to them, they take part in their production. They take you into a world where the tissues of meaning are just emerging and intertwining. Ulrich Vogl's works tell stories that seem personal and individualised but they are capacious enough to be nobody's. They take on contours only in the making as they interact with other objects and our own stories.
Objects make interiors habitable and they transform them into homes. Things let us tame space and break the emptiness of bare walls. Ulrich Vogl uses everyday objects that, although they beguile with their apparent closeness, mutated, combined, and decomposed, reveal their flip side. Instead of a home, the works shown in Domestication build a labyrinth where meanings rub up against each other and tangle with each other. Ulrich Vogel's works show that "objects cannot be reduced to material, tangible and usable or depletable goods, which we commonly refer to as <<> as it is, is a treasure trove of disguises, concealments, contrivances, provocations and fuses that no single [...] subject can exhaust" (Antony Hudek, The Object)."
An extract from the accompanying text by Małgorzata Jędrzejczyk
