Time Will Not Wait for Us

KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT, Berlin

May 31 – June 29, 2024

KÖNIG TELEGRAPHENAMT is pleased to present the exhibition TIME WILL NOT WAIT FOR US by Rachel Garrard, which is her first solo representation with the gallery. The exhibition brings together Garrard's most recent body of work, showcasing her exploration of abstraction through the intertwining of the natural world, perception, and imagination.

Garrard's artistic practice spans multiple mediums and techniques, including painting, sculpture, sound, and video. Her work is deeply rooted in extensive research into contemporary science, the fundamental elements of nature, the mathematics of harmonious forms, and the energy potential in material objects. Through this interdisciplinary approach, Garrard has developed a distinct symbolic language that aims to connect subjective experience with the cosmic and universal.

In her paintings, such as "Direction in Space" (2024) and "Passing Through" (2024), she layers pigments collected from rocks and minerals directly on the canvas until abstract universes emerge. Her use of natural materials seeks to link the terrestrial with inner landscapes. The geometry, shapes and colors of the paintings evoke dreamlike spaces, impossible architectures and indecipherable symbols, and function as a point of intersection of the visible and the invisible. Their metaphysical and luminous quality seeks to propitiate a synesthetic sensorial experience.

In addition to her paintings, the exhibition includes a series of 24 drawings titled "Inner Landscapes" (2024) and a series of sculptures made from steel and wood: "Ascension," "Parallel Worlds," and "Space" (2021). While the paintings correspond through a dialogue of forms, so do the sculptures, which in juxtaposition to the paintings, appear heavy and weighted.

The exhibition's theme is informed by the current fractiousness of global politics and the challenges facing the natural world. Garrard sets this against the potential she sees in the cosmic structure as a reliable system that holds everything together. In a time of uncertainty and divisiveness, Garrard believes in anchoring her work in the unchanging principles that govern the universe.