Sabine Schirdewahn
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Mixed media, 1988–1993
Sabine Schirdewahn's works realise an “arte metaphisica” of a special kind. It was not without reason that Chirico's term came to mind before them. It is about the evocation of the absent, provoked by silence, light and spatial expanse.
Photos and ambience reproduce or reconstruct situations long gone. Time as lost remains as distanced in the medium of photography as it is in the unreal, not just ‘painted’ but ‘painted’ installations. Presence is denied. Nevertheless, the situations are not museum-like past events, as the objects no longer have an identity with themselves. This intermediate state is very suggestive, magical, non-surreal. It is about the psychological effect, but not about the psyche of the producer or recipient. That is why the works are non-conceptual, not deffinable in a rational language.
Bernhard Kerber, 1992