zweijahrtausendfern / fevertree

Patricia Lambertus creates visually stunning spatial installations. They explore the tension between fiction and reality, as well as between beauty and destruction. Within the pictorial space, there are multiple layers of images – a cross-section of different eras on a single plane. These are appropriations from art history, from the media, found objects from the internet, and her own images created during her research trips.

Using the techniques of collage/décollage, Patricia Lambertus disrupts apparent reality. There are obvious breaks, cracks, and cut edges. She openly presents the trompe-l'œil effects to the viewer, so that they are simultaneously illusioned and disillusioned.

Arie Hartog, director of the Gerhard Marcks Museum in Bremen, says of Patricia Lambertus: She “makes perception visible and offers clues to seeing and understanding beyond the intellect. By sampling existing digital images, the artist achieves a peculiar degree of reality, […] and creates a completely unreal world.” In which, nevertheless, we rediscover familiar elements.

In Essenheim, she is showing works from the series "two millennia away" and "fevertree". "two millennia away" is based on research into the historical wall paintings of Pompeii. The ancient, immersive spatial images are collaged with contemporary and futuristic images, illustrating the transience of human civilization.

"fevertree" originated from impressions gained through several trips to South Africa. The title is derived from the characteristic vegetation of the yellow-barked acacia, but also evokes lucid fever dreams in which realities shift. Exoticism, colonialism, the present day, and science fiction are brought together here, stimulating the viewer's own chains of association.