"Bald"
India Ink on Paper
12x16in
Germany
"I want to create a tension between formal coolness and intense emotion in my work."
Saskia Schüler uses a wide range of different techniques that combine handcraft and computer graphics. Drawing, painting, typefaces, digital prints, and iron-on bead images are all thematically linked by a broad concept of temporal sequences, proximity and distance, memory and alienation. The grid, the uniform dashes, the repeated writing are a consistent characteristic of Saskia Schüler's work. The style of execution, which demands persistent, skilled execution, is reminiscent of meditative practices. The artist creates textile-like structures or finely nuanced layering, concentrating on the increasing autonomy of simple action. Saskia Schüler enables the visual perceptibility of time and thus opens up poetic spaces.