URSULA HUBER

EGO CENTER / UNBREAKABLE

Ursula Huber’s artistic work takes off from the essential form of a man’s head – which she has named “Ego” – that is completed by synthesizing the body shape. With minimalist representations of the human figure, her works depict the conflicts and tensions of contemporary society. The next artistic step she took was giving this archaic head an even so archaic torso body. She then formed a group of 13 sculptures, twelve of them transparent and sandblasted, only one of them with a deep cobalt blue color. He or she is in fact the one, the EGO CENTER, he or she gives not only the name to the installation but it gives it also a philosophical raison d’etre. This central figure is a positive ego, this means a solid, healthy and strong sense of self. Ego in this sense doesn’t mean that you’re stuck-up or conceited; rather it means you are able to access within yourself the truth in any given situation. This involves reason, discernment and balance, even in the most tumultuous and challenging times. A strong ego, in a positive sense, is essentially paradoxical. It is solid, even invincible. It is focused, dedicated and unyielding. At the same time, a strong ego is completely flexible, unvested, reflective and free to move in a new direction without guilt, shame or fear of humiliation, it is

UNBREAKABLE.