BIRD IN ITALIEN IS UCELLO

A critical exploration of the limits of psychoanalysis and psychiatry underlies Gernot Wieland's audiovisual collages in which the habit of saying "I" is confronted with a radical empathy for other living beings and the landscape. An inquisitive gaze at the cruelty and strangeness of the world articulates possible answers to two questions that define his work with a childlike insistence: What do we see? What do we want to see? His narratives operate on the present, past and future like layers of plasticine, slowly moulding images of words and silences, absurd creatures born from the incestuous cross between memory and fiction. Bird in Italian is Uccello responds to these vital accounts of crossed stories between different species, landscapes and objects that share a collective unconscious. He uses them to emphasise the possibilities for a post-human ethic, which are already present in popular culture and which open up paths within the nonsense to which we have been led by the belief in man as the centre of the universe.

Leandro Martínez Depietri