RETRAMP Gallery
Reuterstr.62
12047 Berlin
RETRAMP Gallery presents:
Time Is a Healer
Solo show by Jonny Star
Opening, Thursday, 3.04.2025, from 5 pm to 9 pm
Exhibition runs from 4.04. until 6.04.2025
Open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 3 pm to 7 pm
The artist will sign her monograph on Sunday, 6.04.2025, 4pm
The solo exhibition Time Is a Healer presents a series of works by Berlin-based artist Jonny Star, which were produced with precision and great attention to detail during the Corona lockdown. The series of works Space comprises particularly expressive and high-quality works by the artist and allows us to immerse in a new visual language that combines painting, photography, digital montage and textile art. Sensual, aesthetic and expressive, the works invite the viewer into a dreamlike space in which the living beings human, as a female body, and animal, as a Japanese ornamental carp Koi, meet and seem to dance, swim and float. In the series of six wall hangings, humans and animals unite and surround each other, sensually, tenderly, in various movements and positions in relation to each other, dynamically or calmly, or even appear to merge. In proportions that are not true to life, but with shimmering, color-matched textures of skin and scales, creatures from the elements of air and water meet here in a new element: in a white open space that seems to be limited only by the edge of the picture. White, surreal, dreamlike, infinite like nothingness, space. A space without a floor, without boundaries, but certainly deep, which makes orientation fade, an unknown space, not of this world, a heavenly, divine space full of light? Or the space in the mind, of dreaming, of the imaginary, of the subconscious, and possibly a place for transcendence, reconciliation, healing, and peace?
The exhibition Time Is a Healer presents for the first time this series Space with printed and sewn wall hangings richly embroidered with Swarovski pearls, as well as works on paper, photomontages, and prints. The exhibition is accompanied by texts by four curators - four different interpretations of Stars' Space series, which were written after its completion in 2020/2021. Daniela von Damaros, Katia Hermann, Sylvia Sadzinski and Madeleine Schwinge thus open up different perspectives on Jonny Star's expressive series and take us into the visual cosmos of Time Is a Healer.
Curated by Katia Hermann