VBKW presents new members

A room devoid of people is by no means without history: there are always historical and cultural traces in it. The painter Carola Dewor has dedicated herself entirely to the depiction of interiors and explores the complex stories they offer: »In my paintings, I want to make time, past and present, their atmospheric and psychological connections visible. The interior offers me a broad sensual-visual vocabulary for this. They are the open stories that manifest themselves in inhabited spaces and always refer to my own history, my own time.« Dewor is represented with two works in the exhibition New Members of the Association of Visual Artists Baden-Württemberg (VBKW) and is therefore one of 34 nominees for the sponsorship award. This is awarded every two years by a jury. The show, curated by Bettina Michel, opens on the evening of February 9 at the KUNSTBEZIRK gallery in Stuttgart and ends on March 16.

Carola Dewor allows her pictures to have their own dynamic: she directs color and form, receives answers and reacts to them. The interplay creates atmospheric, enigmatic images that cannot be logically explained to the end. The promise lives from the incident light, which shapes the space and opens up scope for interpretation. In secret is based on photographs and also began as a project with a focus on light. While painting, Dewor realized that the picture revolves around the armchair and the secretary. They are the enigma of the painting, the center of the stories that the painting suggests.

Dewor is a participant in the Art.Salon artist program and has a long list of solo exhibitions to her credit. In the early 1980s, she was a fellow at the renowned California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita near Los Angeles.