Neues Deutschland (New Germany) Newspaper, Berlin 01.02.2005

Grauen - nicht auf den ersten Blick (Horror - not at first sight)
ifa-Galerie thematisiert Zusammenhänge zwischen Firmen und Naziverbrechen (ifa Gallery's theme is the link between companies and Nazi crimes)

"…The ifa Gallery's central motif of the exhibition "Stets gerne für sie beschäftigt" ("Always glad to be of service…") is the role that industry played during the era of German Fascism. The gallery succeeds in performing its work on memory without being too screamingly overt. To recognise the horror under the surface takes time.
On entering the gallery one's gaze is immediately held by four framed pictures that one spontaneously imagines are out-of-the-ordinary Hugo Boss advertisements - one first only sees the aesthetics. Tanya Ury's pictures - each containing Boss advertisements, a portrait of the artist and a kitschy postcard image from the Franco era in Spain, concern themselves with the disparity between trivialisation and deadly seriousness. The Boss industry (clothing for the Storm Troopers) employed Forced Labour. A video shows a woman who sews the name Boss into her hand with needle and thread, while the song "Röslein auf der Heide" (Rose on the Heath, Schubert) is to be heard. It is an imposing sequence that has something perverse about it. But it clarifies how a perverse environment and situation will provoke perverse actions…"

Part of an article by Robert Meyer (English translation Tanya Ury)