prima materia
the psyche in action
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Prima materia should be understood less as a beginning than as a field of forces and potentialities: a state prior to forms, styles, and categories, in which matter and spirit are not yet dissociated. In Jung’s thought, it refers to this original, indistinct, and fertile chaos from which all transmutation becomes possible.
The extreme diversity of the works brought together here bears witness to these buried languages within each of us, seeking a path. They emerge from an inner necessity: to bring the world into alignment with one’s inner turmoil, or to found an alternative order.
Each of these works constitutes a founding act, in which signs, motifs, and repetitions contribute to a stabilization of reality. Drawing becomes ritual, accumulation becomes structure, figuration becomes invocation. Prima materia thus reminds us that art was, first and foremost, a vital operation: the conversion of raw experience into a transmissible world.
with : Isabel Alemán Corrales, Lindsay Caldicott, Raimundo Camilo, Farnood Esbati, Johann Fischer, Dagmar Havlíčková, Freda Köhler, Davood Koochaki, David Marshall, Luboš Plný, José Johann Seinen, Patrick Siegel, Leopold Strobl, Oswald Tschirtner, George Widener.
