Narelle Jubelin: Nalgures

Nalgures (Someplace) situates us in an indeterminacy that is yet to be defined, within certain fragmentary geographies: places, vestiges, modes of occupation. Narelle Jubelin examines the memories of certain spaces, of certain specific objectual and literary references within the Galician setting, which link up with other cartographies and with references to her own biography and artistic career. This happens, for example, in a calligraphic intervention in which Jubelin interprets A desvertebra, a text by the poet, Ana Romani (Noia, Corunna, 1962). Moreover, for this project, for the first time, Jubelin incorporates other contemporary artistic creations into her semantics; such is the case of the photographs taken by Anna Turbau (Barcelona, 1949) in Galicia in the mid nineteen-seventies and which hint at elements to which the Australian artist resorts decades later.

Nalgures delves into the memory of the landscape and of human habitation constructions, but also into the modes of spatial occupation and the formal redefinition of different cultural productions. The new works, produced specifically for this exhibition, are joined by elements present in previous projects, such as Soft Shoulder (Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1997), Shumakom (Artists’ House, Jerusalem, 2002), Afterimage (La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 2012), Plants and Plants (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2013), Floor and Wall (ABM, Madrid, 2018), Primitive Road (Nordeste, Santiago de Compostela, 2018) or The Housing Question (Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney, 2019).