RITA DAUBLÄNDER

Rita Daubländer has been working as a visual artist since 2007, after working with fabric as a material for about 15 years in textile arts and crafts. More freedom and possibilities of materials drew her to painting. Baking boards, floorboards, found objects, baking paper were her preferred painting surfaces in the early days. The color scheme of her current work is more monochromatic. They are often stories “told” by their surroundings: crumbling walls, barren spaces, and the aesthetic beauty of decay – traces of transience. The artist uses marble powder, pigments, dust from her own house, ashes, roof varnish, plaster, and other materials hostile to art. In her works, she strives for a kind of archaic expression. The processuality of the image’s creation, such as lines, cracks, seams, injuries, is preserved, and documents the living. Perhaps this expresses her unconscious striving to create a balance for too much order, cleanliness, and anonymity of our contemporary society.