MARIA
Solo exhibition
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2025
A distinct image logic runs through Maria, my graduation exhibition from the painting class at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. It is shaped by what I call didactic fantasy — an epistemology rather than an escape. Influenced by cautionary and pedagogical imagery that both warns and seduces, I paint post-naive figurative scenes, laced with breeding libido. Figures of pursuit — Verfolgerfiguren — appear, always seeming to be right behind you. This is psycho realism, informed by a love for horror realism in cinema, but more psycho. These images have an insisting quality — like a bathrobe that, in its very existence, wants to be worn.
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Photo Jorit Aust
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT
2025
A distinct image logic runs through Maria, my graduation exhibition from the painting class at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. It is shaped by what I call didactic fantasy — an epistemology rather than an escape. Influenced by cautionary and pedagogical imagery that both warns and seduces, I paint post-naive figurative scenes, laced with breeding libido. Figures of pursuit — Verfolgerfiguren — appear, always seeming to be right behind you. This is psycho realism, informed by a love for horror realism in cinema, but more psycho. These images have an insisting quality — like a bathrobe that, in its very existence, wants to be worn.
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Photo Jorit Aust