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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Self-reflection, 2018, Oil on linen, 65 x 72 cm
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Paul Sochacki, Singularity, 2018, oil on linen, 60 x 57 cm
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Fetisch Dialektik, 2018, three vintage postcards with drawings placed inside window frames
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Fetisch Dialektik, 2018, three vintage postcards with drawings placed inside window frames
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Labyrinth of truth, 2018, oil on canvas, 170 x 130 cm
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Auschwitz, 2017, oil on linen 105 x 120 cm
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Krieg und Frieden, 2018, oil on linen, 150 x 120 cm <br>
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Self-reflection, 2018, Installation view, EXILE
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Der Schrei, 2018, oil on linen, 115 x 85 cm
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La Folia, 2018, oil on linen, 96 x 109 cm
For Berlin Gallery Weekend EXILE is happy to contribute a new solo exhibition by Paul Sochacki entitled Self-reflection.
Dear Visitor,
self-reflection, or the contemplation of our inner state, may seem to be a preppy practice of detachment for the most average person imaginable.
Though somehow, to reach the divine level of self-reflection is difficult and unlikely in this world: A world where constructing and consolidating comfort is what interactions within society are essentially based on. Facing comfort can be an encounter of high gravity – and of great boredom.
Most humans are forced into the deepest state of self-reflection when arriving from a different world, sphere or community, finding themselves in an under-privileged position. Caught in there, they are forced to reconsider the value they embody and represent.
The exhibition combines self-made paintings and vintage posters of political and social demands. Together they turn into metaphors for the struggle of self-determination, that existential exercise that paves the consciences of our time.
Here, and at some point, this question might rise: Is there any other event beyond the exhibition that could retaliate the relation of truth and nature for us as a radical force of togetherness and singularity?
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