Relevant aspects regarding my work:

The centre of my work is concentrated on the human being as such, as well as its quality of transforming and putting itself into relation to things or people.

The human creature is at the core of texts, writings, paintings, graphic works, photos even if portraits, mirror reflections, body parts, window images or scenes in a studio, in a slaughterhouse or at a waste disposal site dominate a work of art.

Texts, documents or photos transform into fragments of thought. In addition intuition plays a role as a notion of the body which manifests itself in parts or in the relationship between two people. This poses the questions: Is one person being held by the other or is he/she leaning on or being pressed down by the other? Do animals symbolise the concept of instinct and intuition? My art remains representative even when abstract colour surfaces, texts, graphics and photos are hidden in layers below the paintings. The process of creation itself represents a form of reconstruction. Images are being cut and newly put together; layers of colour pastes are being scratched and repainted. I apply mixing techniques and use acrylic or oil paints as well as chalks. In my paintings, I cover photos which are occasionally left as fragments within the work.

“Although this form of destruction is leaving traces behind, the artist does not leave them as wounds but integrates them into her work without any discontinuity“ says Dr. Beate Nagel, art historian at the University of Braunschweig. She understands this as an “act of liberation“.

Dr. Nagel has interpreted some of my larger works with comments such as: “A firework of gold still remains precious after having destroyed its colour surfaces,“; “rien ne va plus“ - nothing goes, “everything is momentary“. All is about metamorphosis; a transformation of a bird into a predator which knows how to defend itself with its claws and beak but which still remains a delicate creature. What about the Firebird? Does it symbolise the phoenix arising from its ashes, just like the paintings of Kerstin Wüstenhöfer-Loges who destroys and reconstructs?“