- Installation
I Can’t Remember It Clearly, It Was All Blurry
Lara Rocho
3 July 2026 19:00 – 5 July 2026 19:00
The work I Can’t Remember It Clearly, It Was All Blurry explores blurred perception, memory, and emotional distortion. Through the deliberate use of carefully selected materials and their specific qualities – milky, transparent, rigid, and fragile – the work approaches these states. The result is a spatial installation situated at the intersection of textile, drawing, and painting.
Delicate pencil and charcoal drawings on highly transparent paper are arranged in double layers, forming an immersive installation. The overlapping paper surfaces partially obscure the images, causing the viewer’s gaze to blur. The drawings appear fragmented, fleeting, and fragile much like memories that shift, overlap, or fade over time.
The installation creates a dreamlike, almost fairytale-like atmosphere that draws viewers into a nostalgic in-between space. Boundaries dissolve: what is memory, what is projection, what is dream? From a distance, the materials appear milky, diffuse, and blurry; upon closer inspection, distinct forms, lines, and symbols gradually emerge. The work consciously plays with distance, proximity, and perception.
A central aspect of my artistic practice is the combination of distinctive materials and surface qualities transparent or opaque, hard or soft. This materiality invites viewers into a tactile, participatory role. Depending on their arrangement and staging, the structures can evoke feelings of nostalgia, longing, and a desire to retreat or escape into a dream world.
Delicate pencil and charcoal drawings on highly transparent paper are arranged in double layers, forming an immersive installation. The overlapping paper surfaces partially obscure the images, causing the viewer’s gaze to blur. The drawings appear fragmented, fleeting, and fragile much like memories that shift, overlap, or fade over time.
The installation creates a dreamlike, almost fairytale-like atmosphere that draws viewers into a nostalgic in-between space. Boundaries dissolve: what is memory, what is projection, what is dream? From a distance, the materials appear milky, diffuse, and blurry; upon closer inspection, distinct forms, lines, and symbols gradually emerge. The work consciously plays with distance, proximity, and perception.
A central aspect of my artistic practice is the combination of distinctive materials and surface qualities transparent or opaque, hard or soft. This materiality invites viewers into a tactile, participatory role. Depending on their arrangement and staging, the structures can evoke feelings of nostalgia, longing, and a desire to retreat or escape into a dream world.
Biography
Lara Rocho
Rocho’s artistic practice engages with themes of nostalgia, intimacy, vulnerability, loneliness, and obsession. Her approach is based on connecting textile and tactile structures, materials, and fragments with narrative moments, thereby weaving boundaries between reality and fantasy. In this way, textile tableaux are created through motifs and symbols that evoke mythological, fairy-tale, or occult visual worlds. Rocho’s installations generate tensions between intimacy and distance, nostalgia and obsession, attraction and repulsion. Through this interplay, her practice invites viewers not only to look, but to engage physically and sensorially with the work, while consistently aiming to open new perspectives on textiles and spatial experience.
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