Edie Monetti’s (b. 1986 in Munich, Germany, Masterstudent of Günther Förg) painterly practice is nourished by her research into a history of standardization from catastrophes to extremophilia to the singularity of an extreme state.
In the "Sad Puppies" series Monetti examines the thrownness and vulnerability of one's own existence. Fluctuating between pathos and kitsch, the creatures - most of which are special breeds and therefor flawed beings by nature - appear untouchable and isolated. Monetti attempts to redirect the longing to find humanity in the animalistic (loosely based on Deleuze: "The indescribable shame of being human..."), the desire for closeness and "being touched" into an act of painting. In the "O.M.A" (Otto Meyer-Amden) series, the painter's brokenness in relation to his environment is approached and translated into an own painterly expression.
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