Silêncio, Daniela Krtsch

Daniela Krtsch’s work is imbued with an unsettling realism, hovering between the tangibility of the real and the verisimilitude of the dreamlike; her figurative precision operates within the realm of the Freudian concept of “uncanny,” where the recognition of the familiar is subverted by a latent strangeness that places the viewer outside their comfort zone.

Her paintings are narratives in suspension, silent, in search of an unattainable wholeness. What is shown accentuates the absence or inaccessibility of what is to come. All her works are threaded with a melancholic strand, a symptom of an unconscious loss without an object, where Humanity and nature meet in a state of helplessness.

Her paintings emerge as frames of an inner drama or fragmented memories against neutral or bare backgrounds that isolate the figures, stripping them of their temporal and geographical context and accentuating the sense of vulnerability or deep introspection.

Her work exists between enigma, because her images defy rational interpretation, and mystery, due to the ineffable and unspeakable qualities they carry.