Identity and perception

Interesting insights and multi-layered perspectives: The Women exhibition by curator Debbie Davis brings together different positions under a broad theme that invites reflection and exploration of new points of view. Mirijam Seelbinder, Simran Kaushal, Jette Leder, Elvira Flamm, Anastasia Tsaparoglou, Patrick Henne, Gezett, Kristine Narvida, Nikol Sadlonova and Patrice Lambeau are showing selected works at the Lite-Haus Gallery in Berlin. Elvira Flamm, who is taking part in the Art.Salon artist program, will be showing four acrylic paintings from her series Icons without names. In this series of works, which began in 2022, the artist addresses the fleeting nature of media images. Her pixelated versions of these images represent a counter-proposal and criticize the anonymity of the people depicted, who often only symbolically represent a condition such as poverty, but are not perceived as individuals. The four works on display in the Lite-Haus Gallery in particular are based on photographs of women during the famine in Somalia. The exhibition Women can be seen Tuesdays to Saturdays from April 10 to 26 in Berlin.

In her extensive oeuvre, artist Elvira Flamm repeatedly explores various levels of meaning in the seemingly ordinary and everyday. Most of her works are part of a series. Depending on the theme, the artist chooses her medium, be it watercolor or acrylic painting or experiments with unusual materials such as leaves in collage-like works or texts integrated into paintings. Flamm's creative process does not follow a fixed structure: some works are created strictly according to a concept, others in an experimental, spontaneous way. The artist studied painting at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her life experiences in Suriname, where she lived for 16 years, have a particular influence on her work.