THE MAGIC OF BARELY PERCEPTIBLE DISPLACEMENTS

My works are about the deliberate separation of details from their original context. The fragments taken from their previous environment are brought together on a new level - a canvas, paper or wood. There they grow together anew and even further through painting, collage and textile techniques. Plant-like, animal and human elements mix and combine to form hybrid beings, which appear in implied spaces and landscapes in order to enter into a dialogue with the viewer. The images appear like dream-like sequences, appearing fragile and assembled on the one hand, and interwoven and playful on the other. Realistic details are combined with fantasy structures, patterns and colour surfaces. A recurring element are intricate lines that grow rhizome-like over the picture and create connections between the image fragments. My source material are photos, sketches, fabric scraps, plant and animal books, old magazines, found items from the junk shop or from nature. I draw from this pool while I work on a picture. During the working process, I repeatedly paint over what has already been created, the picture transforms several times - I paint, glue, sew and embroider, the parts grow into each other, under and over - until everything has found its place.

 
PRESS RELEASE

"Riki Jausz's works are the expression of a flourishing imagination, populated with all kinds of beings that are not and somehow of this world. As colorful as the decoratively celebrated picture stories may seem at first glance, they turn out to be ambiguous and enigmatic on closer inspection. Riki Jausz is a player with set pieces, techniques and formats. Poetry and uncanniness combine in her works to form a painted, glued and sewn "other" whole.
(Edith Schlocker, Tyrolean daily newspaper, press release on the solo exhibition Riki Jausz, Andechs-Gallery Innsbruck, Austria)