The first drawings were created during the pandemic - long hours alone in the studio. Initially completely abstract—almost calligraphic marks on paper, the drawings have developed into my favourite subject matter: Books - with blurred text. Books that find themselves in all kinds of configurations, lying down, standing up, as in everyday use—but also taking up space like architectural bodies. The texts are almost invisible, sandblasted on glass they float like clouds in front of the drawings and cast shadows. At the invitation of Kurt Raich, I then developed these drawings further on the lithographic stone; he printed them with a hand press in a very small edition of eight. We each used a second lithographic stone to tell stories, in one version the blurred texts were embossed in the wet paper, which is clearly visible despite the delicacy. The texts are poems by indigenous contemporary American women writers that address space, transcendence and time.

So we—Kurt and I—will continue to experiment with the litho stones and already have new plans - these will be on display in September.

These works with blurred text were created in 1993—originally as screen prints on large, transparent glass panels. This work raises the question of perception: when the text is freed from its primary information content, do I see an image or do I perceive the work as text? At the beginning I used texts from my private library, photographed pages from books that had different structures: Poems, scientific treatises, interviews - text forms that were preserved in the blurred image...

Many different text images stood loosely in the room, stacked on top of each other against the wall, you found yourself in a huge book in which you couldn't read anything. All the text motifs were summarised in a small pocket book, a second one shows blurred images with blurred text superimposed, the blurring is different here - in the image it appears wide and spatial, the text always remains relatively flat. Both books were published in an edition of 1001 copies each and can also be seen in the exhibition.

Press release courtesy Galerie Krinzinger.