SABINE HERTIG - Overlook

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Exhibition view OVERLOOK

Stage 6, 2024
Analogue collage on paper
30 x 24 cm
Archive no. 0316

Stage 4, 2024
Analogue collage on paper
26,5 x 39 cm
Archive no. 0307a

Stage 1, 2023
Analogue collage, water drawing, charcoal and pencil on paper
43 x 54,5 cm
Archive no. 0293

Untitled, 2023
Analogue collage, water drawing, charcoal and pencil on paper
66 x 50,5 cm
Archive no. 0292

Exhibition view 2, 2024
Analogue collage, water drawing and charcoal on paper
44 x 63 cm
Archive no. 0325

Room 7 (reflexion), 2023
Analogue collage, water drawing, charcoal and pencil on paper
74 x 49,5 cm
Archive no. 0289

Room 8 (reflexion), 2024
Analogue collage, water drawing, charcoal and pencil on paper
107 x 73 cm
Archive no. 0308

Assemblage 1, 2024
Drawn montage / pencil on paper
60 x 49 cm
Archive no. 0279a

Reflexion of Assemblage 1 and 2, 2024
Analogue collage and charcoal on paper
85 x 63 cm
Archive no. 0324

5. November 2024 – 18. January 2025

In her current exhibition, which once again focuses on collage, Sabine Hertig invites us to a multi-layered media exploration of her artistic work. With « Overlook », the artist encourages reflection on the image as a changeable unit that oscillates between "overview" and "overlook", enabling ever new perspectives on the visible and the hidden.

For Hertig, thinking in terms of collage means relating the parts and the whole to one another. But it also means contemplating the whole from the perspective of a single part: The collage as a « form of thought of reflected seeing ».

With reference to the ambiguous exhibition title, « Overlook » plays with the tension between "seeing" and "overlooking" within and outside the classic image boundaries and thus reflects essential aspects of visual perception and art reception.

Sabine Hertig is interested in “heterogeneous spaces of possibility”, as in the form of fictitious stages as well as exhibition and reflection spaces that can be visually explored and researched – complex works in which the viewer is often seen as an active part of the ‘staging’.

The seemingly limitless possibilities of her pictorial spaces are evident on both a motif and media level, whereby she continually shifts the genre boundaries of collage and redefines them for herself through a variety of techniques – such as photography, painting, drawing and water drawing.