The ANTLITZE become a counterpart the moment they are viewed.In the gaze, we encounter ourselves – the face thus becomes a reflectionof every viewer.
The basic composition is based on the axial symmetry of icons, yet at the same time raises the pressing question of one’s own presence.
The images offer the opportunity to enter one’s own inner space. The image within a person becomes, through the act of painting, an image on the
outside, only to become once more an image within another person. By making us aware of these transitional processes between ourselves and others, the images have the potential to become instrumentsof the CROSSING process. They invite us to overcome our ownsituation of separation by perceiving transitions
that simultaneously conceal, protect and reveal. The theme of the project is also reflected in the materiality of the works : the phenomenon of colour and the material specific to Katharina Lökenhoff— wax skin (silk dipped in beeswax) — raise the question of experiencing and overcoming boundaries. The work provokes a
movement of connection and integration. The material wax skin becomes a common point of contact between the inner and outer worlds, between the body, the interior and the surroundings. As the result of a process carried out by bees, the material ‘wax’ is also particularly important for its property as a heat conductor. Applied to silk, it embodies, in its resemblance to human skin, the quality of the mediating ‘membranous’.
