Reverse flow | Lilli Elsner

On a textile surface painted in the background with a motif of deer, some mere silhouettes and others filled with a strong, deep red, Lilli Elsner presents us with a female figure. This figure is depicted from various angles, mostly in underwear, and expresses different emotions and moments in time. Red and blue contrast with each other, resulting in an image of extreme intensity and power.

Born in 1993, Lilli Elsner works with a wide range of materials and media. In addition to her expansive installations, which repeatedly reference socio-political and societal events, she draws and paints on paper and canvas. In her extraordinary visual worlds, humans and animals often stand in direct confrontation, sharing the space inherent in the image. Culturally charged creatures such as frogs and deer find their way into these mystically evocative worlds, in which the same human figure always appears: the artist herself, a self-portrait. "Art doesn't repeat itself; it is unique in every picture," says the artist, who left her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2012 after five semesters "without gaining any new insights." Lilli Elsner works in her studio in Wachow, which she converted into a workshop herself over several years.

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