Racing heart

individual exhibition
Zurych, 2024
galery a_publik

i am not at ease. my heart takes part in a race. the race for life, happiness and safety. thoughts about war, ecological disaster, everyday difficult choices make me feel distracted, tense. they trigger strong emotions, emotions which our heartbeat has to cope with. every new day means experiencing: smell, touch, temperature, sound, words and sights. all of this sensory input has its own rhythm, flowing with or disrupting my pulse. to find balance, i try to rebalance my heartbeat, to picture it. to translate it to colour, shape, brush movement, sensuality of paint, softness of fabric. half a circle becomes an element of construction - wave, bow, curve, ovalness. the shape describes reality, gives meaning, builds and constitutes an object. for me, it is also the shape of a breast. i draw hedges with breasts, trees made of breasts - in search for calming repetition. both plants and women are turned into geometry, described by a geometric curve. using repetitive elements, searching for rhythms, becomes my way of catching my breath and finding my balance. a way to distance myself from my own experience.