LINGERING LINES Maria Schumacher

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Maria Schumacher's paintings encourage us to think about our interpersonal relationships and open up, sometimes figuratively, sometimes abstractly, perspectives on social encounters, touching, and sexuality. In our perpetual dichotomy between essential search for meaning and meaninglessness, Schumacher's motifs confront that very absurdity with fearless awkwardness and, at the same time, deep suspicion of human ideals, absolute self-mastery, or absolute mastery of a thing.      

Maria Schumacher (*1983 in Bucharest, Romania) completed her diploma studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, specialist class Heribert C. Ottersbach and specialist class Neo Rauch in 2011. Maria Schumacher lives and works in Leipzig.