Looking through the past

What do we look for? Reliving the wonderful moments. Or feel the pain all over again? Embrasing lasting impressions? The warmth, of a "ones in a lifetime" feeling? Beware: it's also a fact that your memory is fading, details are slipping away, scenes losing their brightness or no longer exist. Distortions might creep in, and events drop out entively or become overlaid. Both in terms of colors and emotions. Monika Wildenburg and Lidija Schrage will take you, in this exposition, on their tour of thoughts. Lidija Schrage, born in the Netherlands, translated these toughts by using her raw, direct photographic artwork of multi memories layered images. She's blowing up the memory and changes the insight as an result of using large sheets of delicate fabric or the use of carton and limewash paint, in small boxes or bigger photoprints. What do I see? The work currently on display was shot primarily in Cape Verde. Curious? Visit lidijaschrage.com

Monika Wildenburg, born in Germany. Her journey into art began with the study of sculpture in Maastricht (NL). Sculpture, however, demands space—a physical space that she did not always have. Out of this necessity emerged a fruitful detour: an intensive exploration of painting and its effect on the surface. Ultimately, she was drawn back to the three-dimensional. It is this one decisive extra dimension that, for her, makes “reality” more immediate and tangible. Although she herself often feels a strong urge to touch art when visiting exhibitions, she asks the viewer to experience her work through the senses alone. For her, intellectual understanding has no place in art. On the contrary, art is not something to be understood or explained—it is something to be experienced. For her, art is: “Everything else!!”