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Public Gallery is pleased to present Sill, a solo exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Berlin-based artist Cathrin Hoffmann, whose subjects embody the physical intensity and psychological fatigue engendered by an age of information overload. No longer performing exaggerated gestures of desire or grotesque theatricality, Hoffmann’s figures inhabit states of sustained tension and accumulating pressure, sedimented in the threshold between endurance and action.
Hoffmann’s practice has long been concerned with states rather than subjects–her figures often hold durational poses, their confinement dictated by the limits of the canvas. In a marked formal shift, recent works turn toward the monochromatic: reddish-brown tones, from dark ochre to rust and clay, dominate the palette. Sill, the exhibition’s title, frames this shift and operates as both metaphor and site. Architecturally, a sill suggests a ledge–a place of pause and rest, but also of voyeuristic consumption. Geologically, it…
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Public Gallery is pleased to present Sill, a solo exhibition of new painting and sculpture by Berlin-based artist Cathrin Hoffmann, whose subjects embody the physical intensity and psychological fatigue engendered by an age of information overload. No longer performing exaggerated gestures of desire or grotesque theatricality, Hoffmann’s figures inhabit states of sustained tension and accumulating pressure, sedimented in the threshold between endurance and action.
Hoffmann’s practice has long been concerned with states rather than subjects–her figures often hold durational poses, their confinement dictated by the limits of the canvas. In a marked formal shift, recent works turn toward the monochromatic: reddish-brown tones, from dark ochre to rust and clay, dominate the palette. Sill, the exhibition’s title, frames this shift and operates as both metaphor and site. Architecturally, a sill suggests a ledge–a place of pause and rest, but also of voyeuristic consumption. Geologically, it…
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