She descends into the depth of the past to unearth traces and memories from the beginning of time. Working intuitively, rather than conceptually, she examines her fragmented findings and metamorphoses layer by layer, from the inside and beyond.
Their reconstructed history exposes buried secrets, shedding light on lost stories - piece by piece - like a jigsaw puzzle, gathered and assembled into evidential visual readings. These grand ‘archaeo-graphics,‘ where shapes emerge when things appear in an expected - or even better, an unexpected context - are a conglomeration of the unconscious, subliminal, invisible, and inaudible, responding to the loss of place and time.
König‘s huge pictorial sites stand on their own merit, as Prof. Annette Krisper Beslic so eloquently describes: “The colours used in the tones of earth, moss, lichen on stone – have also led to an approach, to a discovery of their own structures of experiences, their way of depositing, penetrating into other layers of existence.“
These organic forms were out of reach, discovered or recovered and dug up, supported with PVC foil and mounted directly onto the gallery‘s walls, where they float freely in a new continuum of space and time.
Image:
Courtesy and ©Katrin König, ‘XXXI – V – MMXXIII’, collagraphy and varnish on Pentaprint PVC film, 2023, H2700 mm x W3500 mm.
Courtesy and ©Katrin König and Renee Pfister Art & Gallery Consultancy, 2023.
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