Paul Valentin
[…] I have always taken pleasure in the fact that the Mosai Sinci lexicon contains the remarkable word “Zharroktal.” Precisely because it has no meaning, it became a popular filler in youth slang: a rhetorical gesture used to express the frustration that something cannot be articulated in one’s own language – perhaps because it is too complex, too tangled, too contradictory, or too new. I now read the word in violet letters across the ruins of the city and realize that logic will not carry me any further. My path leads inward, into the shadowed terrain of paraconsistency […] – Paul Valentin: “Formula” (2023-today)
Once again, the exhibition space at Galerie Britta Rettberg darkens for the solo exhibition of Paul Valentin. His works revolve around philosophical questions, paradoxes, and dilemmas – driving thought toward its Archimedean point. From there, every step through the exhibition leads to the same question: What if logic itself is the obstacle? What if the binary structure of right and wrong, understood and misunderstood, blocks precisely the movement that leads to insight?
