Kalo Mina of November presents Ursula Palla with an installation of 48 bronze parts.

 

In her works the artist combines the media video and sculpture and brings delicate materials such as sugar, coal dust or snow together. The fragility and transience of plants and animals is a central key in many of Ursula Pallas works. Tender poesy and a delightful aesthetic makes them accessible on a first level. 

 

The source for "Botanical Fragments/Displaced Herbarium 2" can be found in the herbarium of extinguished, displaced plants. In the reconstruction process 2d images were converted into 3d graphics and then printed. These 3d prints were subsequently used as an original for casting. The highly detailed casts in bronze are technically impressive but can not detract the fact that these are only incomplete depictions of displaced plants. Parts of the visual information will remain irrecoverable. "Botanical Fragments/Displaced Herbarium 2" appears like a time travel to a botanical past emphasising our responsibility towards nature and environment.

 

Ursula Palla lives and works in Zurich. Her works have been presented since 2004 in numerous exhibitions and are parts of important public and private collections.