The Unknown
My current acrylic- and oil-series, 'The Unknown', deals with the psychological mechanism of not wanting to know the unknown - that is, ultimately, novelty, pain, the unconscious - as visionarily described by the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion in his book 'The Importance of Not-Knowing'. In my work nature and body parts are symbols of emotions such as fear, shame and resentment and represantatives of the theme: domestic violence against women and the structural inequality in the power structure between the sexes. The key words here are desire, submission, abuse, unexpressed potential and the transgenerational transmission of trauma.
Early Unknown-Paintings-Exploring the Unknown
Where are my wings?, mixed media on canvas, 54x65, 2022
fragile, mixed media on canvas, 54x65, 2022
crawling me, oil on canvas, 50x60, 2023
to be unloved, oil on canvas, 72x60, 2022
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Hidden in stone, mixed media on canvas, 80x65, 2022
found a piece- but what is it?, acrylic on canvas, 54x65, 2022
behind the facade, oil on canvas, 63x80, 2022
entering the unknown?, oil on canvas, 65x80, 2022
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Fragments
When our soul fragments, due to trauma, protective mechanisms and our fascinatingly strong urge to survive in a psychological way, fragments those splintered pieces of our self - emerge. This series focuses not on the pain but on piecing together. These parts of our soul that are separate now but were once part of a whole. My aim is to get to know these fragmented parts, to put them back together, to sort them out and thus create an old new person.
Fragments: Of my Mariage, oil and mixed media on canvas, 120x80, 2023
Fragments: Could I Rise?, oil on canvas, 120x80, 2023
Fragments: Joy Of Life, oil on canvas, 120x80, 2023
Fragments: Shadows of the past, oil & mixed media on canvas, 54x80, 2023
In the unknown, acrylic on canvas, 100x100, 2022
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Fragments: Not my Child, oil on canvas, 54x80, 2023
observing the unknown, acrylic on canvas, 100x100, 2022
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