Daily History Podcast

Soloshow at Nosbaum & Reding Gallery, Luxembourg, 2021

In Daily History Podcast, the young German artist revisits traditional pictorial genres in a series of works with nods to anti-painting in which she humorously undermines the codes of advertising and consumer society. Executed in a summary, almost casual manner, the backgrounds of her paintings form abstract surfaces populated by outlines of elongated figures reminiscent of cartoon characters. The same is true for the awkward props accompanying or held by her protagonists, whose presence is often reduced to a hand: marker pens, tins of tuna, but also dummy weapons (swords, water pistols) and obsolete communication technologies such as a walkie-talkie which, according to the inscription next to it, is no longer of any use. At the same time, the artist's compositions are brimming with art-historical references, from Egyptian statuary and modernist pictorial experiments to comic strips, as if to underline the randomness of their faceless protagonists, which echoes the trivialization of images in the age of the Internet and social networks. By doing so, they question the possibilities of painting in a world saturated with signs, yet whose sheer abundance is unable to hide the vacuity lurching beneath its surface. 

 - Boris Kremer