Paule Hammer, Untitled, 2009
Collage, acrylic, booklet
29,7 x 21 cm
1 Unique piece
300€ (incl. VAT plus shipping costs)
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The art of Paule Hammer (born 1975, lives in Leipzig) is pervaded by a labyrinth of short stories, philosophical discussions, everyday observations, dreams and thoughts. Its starting point is the artist’s self-questioning: Who are you, what do you think, how should you decide? In a whirlpool of influences, circumstances and realities, supposed facts and stocks of knowledge, Paule Hammer searches for stable islands. It is about orientation in a cosmos of possibilities and about justifiable consequences that could be drawn from this for one’s own life. In fragments or self-contained short stories from his own life, the artist describes aporias of the everyday present, small incidents, on the basis of which profound questions arise. What is true and what is false, what is important and what is secondary, where is a centre? In Hammer’s works, the first-person perspective always plays an essential role. The artist appears as a driven doubter and skeptic, as a pathfinder who stands up against the over-complexity of the present.