Booth B9
Düsseldorf-based Jutta Haeckel paints on jute - the strong, coarse, natural fiber that burlap is made of - and utilizes a series of unorthodox techniques to undermine the physical and conceptual precepts of painting.
Most notably, she applies pigments to the "backside" of the painting, then pushes paint through small gaps in the fabric - extruding it onto the "front"- subverting the two-dimensional space of traditional painting while simultaneously merging image and surface. And rather than painting a form, she paints the negative space around the form, confounding one's perception of foreground and background as well as the meaning of "subject." The paintings appear to be abstract, but are actually representational, often originating from appropriated imagery including mycelium networks, thumbprints, or satellite imagery. Seemingly gestural, they are in fact, quite controlled. For her, these dichotomies are a reflection of the technological, scientific, social, and cultural flux and uncertainty of our time.
