Index Cards, 2000–06

“Integrating the eighty or so index cards into the exhibition was particularly important to me, since Galli combines here a repertoire of stylistic set pieces that can sometimes be found again and again in her oeuvre as a whole. Without stagnation, lines were put to paper with an urgency and fervor—like a persistent sequence of artistic explorations of painterly questions. In the form of writing, emotional reflections, thought fragments, exclamations, calls, poems, and monologues with the self-flow in. In the index cards, associative elements of painting and drawing meet literary text passages, notes, personal thoughts, musical fragments, or randomly picked up scraps of words from a radio broadcast, constituting an essential cycle of Galli’s satiric expressions.” (Annabell Burger)