Josefina Posch
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Artist Josefina Posch discusses her experiences and the influences on her work from her multi national, migration background as well as how artistic migration has changed, and it’s manifestation within the contemporary art world today.
Ms Posch gives a presentation of her installation work encompassing new media and sculpture, including her projects for the 52nd Venice Biennale, Migration Addicts, her Intrude sculpture presented by Zendai Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, and the work she is developing during her April residency at Sculpturespace, Utica. She is currently participating in the International Independent Study Course program at Valand School of Fine Art, Gothenburg University, Sweden.
Ms Posch has traveled extensively around the world, lived in Sweden, Austria, San Francisco, Miami Beach, Valencia, Spain; Venice, Italy, and Shanghai, China.
Her work focuses on the paradox between our primal urges and our intellect in a global, mobile and technology-based society. A shy exhibitionist, where as much as her work addresses political, environmental and social issues often demanding a reaction/ interaction she is at the same time private, introverted and touches upon your (and her) insecurities.
“Slowly you are in the grip of fascination, taken by the aesthetic quality of her all-white works: a desire of perfection or eternity? But beyond sensuality, if you come even closer, you understand that Josefina's point is essentially mental, and that she is appealing to your innermost feeling. It is about flesh, but above all the "pulsions", urges that animate flesh, about the insatiable hunger of being, the insatisfaction or the search for a true communication. The world is beautiful, but is it actually reachable? Josefina reveals our intimate urges; our often convulsive will to exist is expressed by these figures ironically and paradoxically attractive and repulsive. "Les yeux des enfants ont des bouches", together with our hunger - like the small animals we still are- is Josefina's true message and one of her fields of research and expression." Jean-Christophe Paolini
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Reg.des oevres
