DCÉRA ANUBIS - Solo Exhibition
April 14th to May 29th, 2022
GALÉRIA MESTA LEVOČA
05401 Levoča - Slovakia
UNTAMED - Solo Exhibition
UNTAMED
Du 17 au 21 juillet 2019
Avec L’exposition UNTAMED, LORELLA PALENI présente un nouveau corpus de peintures au sein duquel des regards fixes appellent résolument l’observateur à y faire face. Tenant position sur des branches d’arbres, des regards d’animaux et de femmes semblent questionner mystiquement le spectateur. Des instants figés pendant lesquels le regard est renvoyé: ce moment où l’on se sent soudainement touché, mis en contact avec deux yeux posés sur soi. Ce que nous trouvons dans les yeux d’un animal qui nous fixe attentivement, c’est un être à part entière envers lequel nous ne disposons d’aucun langage et avons nos propres limites pour accéder au monde cet “Autre Être”. On peut alors décider de rejeter le regard, son existence, ou alors de voir plus loin et considérer qu’il existe un monde que nous avions refusé de reconnaitre. Les animaux nous démontrent une nouvelle manière d’être dans ce monde au delà du nôtre, de nouvelles possibilités d’existence, mais parce qu’ils sont également sujets, leur regard questionnent la légitimité de nos propres actions ainsi que les présomptions sur lesquelles les sociétés sont construites. Les arbres sur lesquels les sujets se tiennent, ne sont pas des fondements aléatoires; ils nous renvoient à leur propre milieu naturel, un “no man land” qui offre un espace alternatif, réinventant une nouvelle société éventuelle.
Miscellaneous - group exhibitions views
Dwellers - Solo Exhibition, New York
On view: 10/18/2017 - 11/18/2017
E.TAY Gallery is pleased to present Dwellers, a solo exhibition of paintings by Lorella Paleni. Paleni’s work investigates the relationships between humans and animals. Her paintings are tangled scenes of encounters in the wild that invite viewers to grapple with their own ecological consciousness.
Through a process of overlapping, erasing, adding and scraping, dynamic landscapes emerge on Paleni’s canvases. Colors and compositions are arranged in a conflicting manner that evokes both mysticism and sinister intent. While the natural environment dominates the pictorial landscape, ambiguous human characters invade the settings to disrupt the harmony.
In Dwellers, gloved human hands, ghostly industrious figures, monkeys, branches, and other beings inhabit the paintings. The foreground and background intersect with the creatures in an inextricable mesh illustrating that, despite the estrangement between human and nonhuman worlds, they are invariably part of an intricate whole.
Paleni’s paintings are an attempt to question the power structure that lies at the root of our reasoning to question human exceptionalism and imagine new possibilities of existence in the world. The work seems to acknowledge that society is hierarchical, and that the few who rise to the top often do so at the expense of the voiceless.
address: 39 White Street, New York, NY 10013
OTHƎRWISƎ
October 7 - November 6, 2016
“ ... all that we say we are saying around that which cannot be said, cannot be spoken.”
— Susan Griffin
Magic Beans is pleased to announce Lorella Paleni’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
“OTHƎRWISƎ” is a cohesive body of new paintings investigating animal and human relationships. With colorful and contrasting hues, the paintings are built on layers and transparencies. The light that inhabits the
works are often warm flickering fires, like Will-o’-the-Wisp’s spontaneous combustions. The animal and human body’s gestures mingle with the fire, trees, and other forms populating the space.
The subject of the animal also doubles as the "Other,” uncomfortable and unfamiliar. Paleni’s work investigates the fallacy of the thin line that man draws to separate herself from the otherness of the animal. Her paintings create a language beyond verbal systems, establishing a space where speech eludes and rational thinking fails. The “Other” can emerge as the possibility of something unplanned, unexpected, a mishap.
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