Exhibition "Julia Kater: Double"

In her practice, the Franco-Brazilian artist Julia hangover This work investigates the relationship between landscape, color, and surface. It moves between photography and collage, focusing on the construction of the image through cutting and juxtaposition. In photography, Kater starts from the understanding that every image is, by definition, a fragment – ​​a framing that cuts and isolates a part of the scene. In her work, the image is not merely a record of a moment, but rather the result of a displacement – ​​something that is undone and recomposed by the same gesture. The images, often close together, do not seek to document, but to construct a new field of meaning. In the collages, the gesture of cutting takes shape. Fragments of photographs are manually cut, superimposed, and organized into layers that create visual passages marked by subtle color transitions. These accumulations evoke variations in light, atmospheres, and the very passage of time through chromatic gradations.

In the individual Double, Julia hangover The exhibition presents recent works developed from research conducted during her artistic residency in Paris. “My research focuses on landscape and how color participates in the construction of the image – sometimes as an element added to the photograph, sometimes as something that emerges from the surface itself. In the collages, the landscape is constructed through cutouts, juxtapositions, and gradations of color. In the works on fabric, color acts from the surface itself, through manual dyeing, passing through the printed photograph. These procedures deepen my investigation into the relationship between landscape, color, and surface,” explains the artist.

Featured are two works that will be exhibited in the show: one in fabric that is part of the new series and a previously unseen diptych. Stone Body (Centauro), 2025, pigment digital print on silk hand-dyed with plant-based inks and, Untitled, 2025, collage with mineral pigment print on Hahnemühle 210g matt paper, diptych measuring 167 x 144 cm each.

The artist comments: “I continue with the collages made from cut-out photographs printed on cotton paper and now I also work with silk as a medium. The process involves manually dyeing the fabric with natural plants, such as indigo, followed by printing the photographic image. This procedure interests me because of its proximity to the analog photographic process, especially the notion of bathing, immersion time, and color fixation on the surface.” All the works were produced especially for the exhibition, which runs until March 07, 2026.

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Exhibition Julia Kater: Double
From January 22th to March 07th
Monday to Friday, 10am to 19pm; Saturday, from 10am to 15pm