Ruth Biller

In the paintings of the exhibition “Body Gardens” (“Körpergärten”), I want to provoke a kind of “displacement”, placing, in my own way, a free language of colour on an equal footing with the figurative under the concept of “corporeality and space”.
Fields of colour, minimalist and rhythmic, touch images of baroque formal power. In the shared language of dynamism and dissolution, the poles complement each other. Torsos torn from their art-historical contexts, aesthetic estrangement in “pas de double” of a cinematic quality, prepare the mental ground for sensing space in its many facets.
The shadows of the dramaturgy develop, across the rooms, an ornamentation made of visible set pieces, fragmentary gestures and imagination...