DEAR CELLA
Julia Oschatz
is a multidisciplinary visual artist and stage designer. Her work is primarily dedicated to drawing, painting, installation, performance and video. Her walk-in installations create a multi-sensory, appealing and scenic work of art. Julia Oschatz's stage designs have been shown in performances at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, the Hebbel am Ufer and the Staatstheater Stuttgart, among others.
DEAR CELIA (COLORPLAST)
DEAR CELIA (ZELLKERN)
DEAR CELIA (GOLGI-APPARAT)
With DEAR CELLA, Julia Oschatz adds a new, astonishingly surprising dimension to her artistic research. And now opens up the smallest space in the biological world: cells become the stage for a lively, cooperative social theatre. Scientific descriptions of the inner life of cells utilise a didactic distance from which they describe the functions of their components. Underneath their language, something may resonate that reminds us of our own actions and behaviour. Julia Oschatz has opened up a poetic dimension to this level. And so she translates the co-operative life energy of a plant cell into acting figures that resemble us, while the forms of the cell components are enlarged to become their working environment. And if a plant cell is 0.01 mm in size, this anthropomorphic transformation results in a leap in scale to approximately 27 quadrillion : 1 for the components of the cell stage.
A new acronym has recently come into circulation, NGI, ‘Natural General Intelligence’. Neurological research is based on electrodes attached to the brains of animal, primarily human, guinea pigs in order to localise neuronal activity and measure its speed. With DEAR CELLA, Julia Oschatz gives the intelligence of cells a different twist. Clever even in the preservation of their life energy, which they defend against intruders and - who knows how - pass on to their successors.
— Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Hamburg, 2023
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