Description: The sculpture consists of colored model plaster. It shows a life-size portrait of a female with only a hint of upper arms. The face and eyes are turned to the left, coarsely curly hair and a nimbus frame the face. The pastel-like version made of limestone and pigments is undirected and openworked.
Content: The twisted female semi-nude appears almost unprotected, exposed to the relentless wind of change. He tugs at the messy hair. Following her desperate gaze, the figure turns her face away from the frontal view in search of protection. She is recognizable as a saint thanks to the nimbus that appears to float behind her head. She seems out of balance. The intellectual principles on which she based her actions and work were apparently shaken. Doubtful, questioning her faltering principles - which are represented by the crazy nimbus - her eyes wander around, searching and asking for new support: Where should she turn? What gives new orientation? Where does the escape from the loss of conscience go?
The delicately colored version of the sculpture shows floral, climbing motifs and a dragon-like figure like a collection of tattoos on the uncovered skin. These representations allow a kind of documentation of past positive and negative experiences to be associated or wishful images for a possible future to arise.
With this “fleeing saint,” the sculptor Martin Piehler places a figure in the room that passes on his questions to the viewer: How can one pictorially design something that goes beyond the appearance of the material world and make it perceptible to the viewer?
