artist statement:

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In her abstract works, Sabrina Pohl draws on an intuitive use of forms in order to dissolve the visible and the preconditioned. Therefore she opens up new perspectives which first intend to create openness for a new space of viewing. Those catched glimpses of her surroundings, as for example seen in her abstract landscape works, become simplified, fragile beings by using reduced forms and contours. In doing so, she deals with the emphasis of space and light.

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Choosing abstraction as tool reveals the non-visible without pushing the rational in the middle of things: „A flower is not just her appearance“, she states, „it can also be expressed through its smell, or a memory of a gentle touch of the petals between your fingers. Thus, my work displays those subtle layers beyond the visible, e.g. by changing movements during the process like connecting and dissolving elements. It is guided by a feeling of belonging; like the smell of a flower belongs to it without the evidence of seeing the flower itself.“

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Thanks to her longer stays in the mountains of Tyrol or the valleys of Egypt she conveys an important connecting element in the artworks:

„Choosing landscapes or sunsets as themes in my work is not romanticism. It’s brutal honesty by opening up. Using your intuition as guidance always makes you feel vulnerable. But it reflects yourself.“. 

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In 2017, she cooperated with Raun LaRose for the New York Fashion Week that was featured in Highsnobiety among other things.

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In general, she describes her creative process as follows:

„For me, creating means continually being open through the process. It feels like asking the drawing for the next step. And sometimes it’s hard, because your mind wants to tell its own story, and sometimes it’s easy, because you only have to listen.“ And so she continues: 

„One of my prime intentions is to transform the visible into the core element, guided by a process of dissolving. It is like ending a nice chat and now it’s time for the walk home. The core is neither white nor black –  not only just a depiction of a feeling, or of light and of space, or put ironically, the infinite nothingness. It’s your mirror.“.

august 2020