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Katharina Schücke’s drawing practice examines the female figure as it emerges through the intertwined logics of pose, self-staging and the body-obsessed cosmos of bodybuilding. Her point of departure is the mirror selfies shared by athletes on Instagram. From these images, Schücke teases out questions of self-perception and self-empowerment, the shifting of inherited gender codes and the search for affirmation in and through the image. The mirror operates as an accomplice: a surface of control, an instrument for scrutinising appearance, a device for producing reality.
With 'Spiegel', GOODBANK presents twelve works that distill this long-standing enquiry. In her drawings Schücke thinks through the line—intuitive, uncorrected, without hierarchy. Executed in ink, they sit in tension with their subject: highly staged self-portraits produced under muscular strain, calibrated through light, selection and repetition. The athletes stage themselves as models of their own achievement,…
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Katharina Schücke’s drawing practice examines the female figure as it emerges through the intertwined logics of pose, self-staging and the body-obsessed cosmos of bodybuilding. Her point of departure is the mirror selfies shared by athletes on Instagram. From these images, Schücke teases out questions of self-perception and self-empowerment, the shifting of inherited gender codes and the search for affirmation in and through the image. The mirror operates as an accomplice: a surface of control, an instrument for scrutinising appearance, a device for producing reality.
With 'Spiegel', GOODBANK presents twelve works that distill this long-standing enquiry. In her drawings Schücke thinks through the line—intuitive, uncorrected, without hierarchy. Executed in ink, they sit in tension with their subject: highly staged self-portraits produced under muscular strain, calibrated through light, selection and repetition. The athletes stage themselves as models of their own achievement,…































