DENISE SCHELLMANN

Freud und Leid: a play on words as the name “Freud” echoes the German word for joy, “Freude”.

 

In the diptych, it is dialectically juxtaposed with
suffering – “Leid”.
Iconic, spontaneous forms visualise the colours of life. It is only in the cohesive whole that stability and joie de vivre emerge from the order of cell-
like, biomorphic forms. Harmony in colours and surfaces, surprising in their outcomes and not plannable, like life itself. A fragile bond on the brownwomb of Mother Earth.

 

The fault lines, fatefully inscribed in black from the very beginning: dark spaces of decay or illness.
Black lines separate. They overwrite what was once orderly. Uncoordinated and boundless suffering grows. The disease that takes possession of our intactness. In the disintegration of formal harmony, black space gains its autonomous identity. It leaves us searching for joy in suffering.