Ana Heimann (ES)
Text written by GHA
Ana Heimann’s large-scale woodcuts show nature through a poetic lens that questions how we encounter and perceive the world around us.
As recognizable shapes of trees, lakes and landscapes show themselves in unfamiliar colours and tilted angles, Heimann’s work explores how we access and represent our surroundings. Strong contrasts and overexposed colours seem to almost burn away parts of the images and leave only the most important details, thereby changing sights into abstraction. Doing so, the accentuated colours seem to intensify stark impressions of certain times of day or seasons.The pieces thus privilege moods and emotions and somehow work as memories or dreams.
Though the images inspire us to consider our own perception of the world, they simultaneously offer a glimpse of our surroundings in quiet moments of solitude. The elegant style of cutting leaves wavy traces and creates a sense of movement as if the wind was blowing through the images. This soft movement invites us to linger with the steady melancholic pulse of lakes and trees. Looking closer at the images, however, urbane elements might start to appear in the background, blurring questions of inside and outside; the natural and the urbane; the subject and its surroundings.
Heimann’s woodcuts remain ambivalent – distorted, yet peaceful, subjective, yet objective, silent, yet vibrant – thereby allowing each viewer to have their own experience. So take a moment to enjoy and explore these intriguing atmospheres on your own and see what you find.
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