The painterly practice of Rhineland-based artist Edie Monetti (b. 1986 in Munich, Germany, Masterstudent of Günther Förg) draws on her research into extremophilia, the history of the standardization of catastrophes, and the singularity of extreme states. Monetti addresses questions of power structures, destruction of bodies and strategies of refusal.
In her often surreal and ambivalent pictorial inventions - oscillating between kitsch and pathos - she leads us into spaces that cannot be documented, which, as a metaphor, point to an uncertain present and a world that has been "fixed" by man. Rather than developing a clearly identifiable style, she experiments with ambiguity. The paintings consistently emphasize a provisional appearance and a certain "in notes form-like" quality.
