Julia Oschatz’s room-size installations, comprising paintings, drawings, and videos housed in cardboard constructions, chart the eternal odyssey of a fictitious protagonist in this German artist’s ongoing narrative. Part animal and part human, this wayward being stars in short, looping videos that blend performance, animation, and painted imagery, and in muted, enigmatic landscape paintings. Whether dancing to German pop music or meandering through an unearthly terrain, Oschatz’s benign, and at times comical, character embodies the existential quest for meaning and transcendence.
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Above, left: Julia Oschatz, untitled (122-07), 2007; oil, acrylic, spray paint on canvas, 21 5/8 x 29 1/8 inches; Courtesy of the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects , New York |
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