Not One And Simple | So Complex And Many

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House3 is proud to present the exhibition »Not one and simple, so complex and many« with works by Einat Schneppenheim and Heike Lutzer. The title of the exhibition is named after a phrase from the British poet Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves from 1931. Under the influence of this novel the two artists play with identities and multipersonality, as if a personality was split, its fate was declined by the colors of different biographies, and its content of solitude was measured. With her photographs Schneppenheim brings in a clear, often cool-looking style. Abstract painter Lutzer fierce counterpoint comes with an angry expressive gesture, a mixture of painted symbols, pictograms and letters. The artists exchange through their works and show two sides of reflection. Both views coexist with an enormous tension between defiance and celebration of the female existance. Einat Schneppenheim: »Looking at pictures of women, as seen pulled back toward my eye, I see myself. I can’t help it. I parse their bodies, the forms. Not my own and yet familiar.« The photographs from the She series were made at an anonymous Hotel in Berlin. The series tells of the intimate and revealing meeting of a woman and a photographer in a hotel room. A fragile and sensitive relationship. Heike Lutzer: »My works trace my search and desires, both personal and universal, as well as uncertainties and doubts about femininity and identity. Beauty and vulnerability are shown together and attacked. Apparently no beauty exists without injuries. My paintings reflect a variety, a richness, of different impressions, shapes and colors. I bring these different elements together in a conflicting way.« Virginia Woolf: »The Waves« published 1931 by The Hogarth Press, London) is Virginia Woolf's third and last of the experimental novels.