Jessica Fritz

The paintings of Sibylle Springer (born 1975, lives in Bremen) focus on the role of women in the art world of the digital age. For her portrait series Feed, she has painted 40 female artists to date, based on staged photographs from their Instagram feeds. "Is social media an instrument of emancipation, or does it even lead to new forms of objectification?" (Kohout) In Wait for It, Springer copied pop stars from the internet, but used a silver paint that oxidizes the canvases, thus aging the eternally youthful icons before our eyes-- precisely what digital image control seeks to prevent. In her more recent textile objects, Springer interweaves female artists of the past and present. This informative book accompanies her exhibition at the Kunstverein Bremen.

Everyone is trying to find a place that they can call home. But for some, they know where they belong from the start. Yet what do you do when the place that you feel comfortable and safe is also the place you believe does not exist? Turn reality and fantasy into an unknown adventure to find yourself while along the way, meeting all kinds of new people who become closer friends and family than the ones that you have known. With these new relationships, everything should be fine. Yet an uncomfortable feeling and uneasiness are hard to get rid of as you are being thrown down a path to your destiny. In the end, will you find your home?