\Anna OppermannEarly works07.06. - 07.09.2013

Then (as I do today) I constructed still lives, in order to paint pictures (individual pieces). These pictures contained stylised body shapes, at whose centre was a mirror or a mirror with plant material. Other attempts at seducing the viewer were drawn knees, either from the perspective of someone sitting or in front of a more naively drawn table with a still life, for example mirrors, fruit, bits of paper with sketches (if possible trompe l’oeil), and I imagined that outside observers would be able to imagine themselves inside the picture. These expectations likewise were hardly ever met, and that is why I built boxes that one could sit in, or their negative shapes (according to the seated body) that were intended to invite the recipient to observe in a leisurely and meditative way the construction of real plants, drawn plants, photographed plants, combined with quotes on a table in the box. It was only a small step from here to the open arrangements that one can enter, sit down in, or lie down in.