In the exhibition “Between my worlds”, Terence Carr unfolds a multi-layered panorama of artistic forms of expression that oscillate between material, symbolism and meaning. His works cannot be clearly categorized – rather, they reflect the parallel worlds between which the artist moves: the world of religion, that of human abysses and that of abstract symbolism.
Carr’s colorful reliefs are a central element of the exhibition. At first glance, they appear playful, almost cheerful – intense colors, clear forms, a peculiar harmony. But it is only when you read the titles that their deeper layer is revealed: they refer to biblical themes and stories. These references remain hidden at first and only gradually open up to the viewer – a game of perception and interpretation, a back and forth between form and content, between the secular and the spiritual.
Carr’s bronze sculptures depicting the seven deadly sins stand in stark contrast to this. In a realistic and bizarre manner, the artist forms human figures that oscillate between the grotesque and the symbolic. The raw bronze, untreated and heavy, is in clear tension with the colorful reliefs – both formally and thematically. A different world is revealed here: darker, more physical, closer to the abysses of human existence.
The third group of works – abstract sculptures made of wood or aluminum – leads to a symbolic level. These works dispense with figuration in favor of reduced forms, but here too Carr speaks in a clear, personal symbolic language. They are like signs of an inner world, reduced and condensed, and form a kind of antithesis to the narrative density of the other works.
In “Between my worlds”, Terence Carr not only shows the diversity of his artistic means, but also the areas of tension in which his work moves: color versus material, narrative versus abstraction, sacred versus profane. It is these opposites that are not mutually exclusive, but rather charge each other – and open up the space for the silent question: Where does one world begin, where does the other end?