The painterly practice of Cologne-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.
Her work thrives on the tension of the futile attempt to re-establish self-assertion under extreme conditions and encourages the viewer to evaluate existential parameters through the possibilities of painterly discourse.
Monetti emphasizes forms of counter-realization that seek the longing for humanity in the animalistic (loosely based on Deleuze: "The indescribable shame of being human...") and transform the desire for closeness and "being touched" into a painterly act.
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.
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