canvas
1
80 x 80
2026
My work is a contemporary reinterpretation of Johannes Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window.
While Vermeer conveys tranquillity and inner contemplation, I detach the figure from its historical context. Colour, transparency and fragmentation create space for contemporary sensations such as memory, uncertainty and emotional movement. The letter remains a symbol of the inner self, while the window becomes a transition between past and present.
zinc plate
1
50 x 100 cm
2025
The image takes up the romantic motif from Caspar David Friedrich’s ‘Two Men Contemplating the Moon’ and translates it into a modern, expressive visual language.
The figures represent the observer and invite reflection. The landscape appears fragmented and unsettled, while the moon remains a symbol of longing, yet appears distant and enigmatic. The work thus sees itself as a contemporary continuation of Romanticism, in which nature no longer appears as a harmonious retreat, but as a mirror of inner and social tensions.
zinc plate
1
50 x 100 cm
2026
The image appears like a multi-layered collage of memories.
The central figure of the girl from a historical photograph contrasts with the abstract areas of colour and fragmentary drawings. Painterly gestures, scratch marks and overlays create a tension between representationalism and dissolution. The hinted landscape in the background opens up an inner, almost dreamlike space. Overall, the work addresses transience, memory and the fragility of personal and collective history.
on wood
1
50 x 100 cm
2026
The image unfolds like a layer of memory. On the left-hand edge, the woman appears only fragmentarily, almost transparent.
Her gaze is directed inward, toward her deceased husband, who does not appear as a clearly defined figure, but as a trace, a presence in disappearance. He is embedded in the material. It is about a life lived in Gruyère: work, closeness, deprivation, silence. The inspiration from photographs of the original inhabitants of the Maison des Fées in Charmey is palpable as an attitude, not as an image. In the background, the Swiss Alps rise up, sketched and drawn in blue. They stand for constancy and at the same time for the immutability of the past. Landscape and figures intertwine, memory and present overlap. The image tells of grief without pathos and of a quiet continuation of life with the absent. The Maison des Fées appears as a symbolic space of memory in which people, history and landscape are inextricably linked.
canvas
1
50 x 50
2025
The figures are moving across steep, rocky terrain, apparently with only the most basic equipment.
The rugged mountain landscape is depicted alongside the quiet determination of the figures. The image is reminiscent of early alpinism and the courage of those women who, even back then, made their way into the high Alps without much safety equipment and in everyday clothing. It stands for a spirit of discovery, a willingness to take risks and the desire to push boundaries.
