DOROTHEA FÖRSTER

Her objects (made of gold and silver for the jewellery and laser-cut, powder-coated aluminium for the wall objects) retain the irregularities and blurring resulting from the paper cut-outs. Geometric rigour gives way to a playful, sketch-like lightness. This corresponds with the fact that Dorothea Förster does not develop her formal language from conceptual considerations. She draws inspiration from a collection of photos, newspaper clippings, her own sketches and notes, and writings.

It is a process in which the artist proceeds less in a planned and deliberate manner; associative and playful, the process is more like a creative frenzy. This process is documented by paper collages, sketches and documents, which will also be on display in the exhibition. With these, the exhibition space becomes a space for experiencing artistic and creative development, a desire of wanting to do and discover. In her objects, she condenses her experiences and insights from these processes, abstracting, condensing, separating the insignificant from the essential. At the end of this long journey remains a meaning, something lasting, the one sign, the essence.