"The body is the most perfect instrument and the most tragic obstacle."
Alternately surrealist, gestural or figurative, the evolution of Judit Reigl's work is often disconcerting, proceeding in turns as sudden as they are unforeseen. Her journey, however, evinces unchanging existential angst: the dread of appearance and disappearance, of emergence and submersion. If the artist very quickly frees herself from the surrealist group and the dreamlike nature of her early works to move towards a more gestural art, she nevertheless retains the principle of a totally automatic, psychic and physical writing which favors the speed of movement. execution and bursting of forms. For Judit Reigl, the technical aspect is fundamental, from the choice of the canvas to the creation of the instruments she makes. The work is the result of a close encounter with the material, of a real, physical movement that takes place in space-time.