What does memory look like? You see a few images, sometimes short, composite sequences, certain colours, people or rooms, perhaps patterns of clothing or wallpaper. Set pieces, with erratic transitions and blurred edges. Sometimes these are special, but mostly incidental situations, former places, little stories.

The Osnabrück artist Sarah Marie Caroline Dahm searches for the familiar images within us, for the forgotten picture stories, she seeks to visualise memory as a form of romantic longing.

In the spatial installation ‘Blick aufs Gefühlsmeer’, the young artist combines various image media such as old slides, photo prints and free paintings, which create different levels in the room when hung, overlapping and creating connections. The artist has graphically reworked and condensed the old photographs in typical analogue colouring from the 1980s – they show the unknown acquaintance in normal and at the same time bizarre scenes on holiday or in everyday life. Sarah Marie Carolin Dahm has also created intuitive paintings that explore colour spaces and reveal inner emotional landscapes. The viewer’s gaze wanders between recognition and intuition, swimming between luminous figures and deep layers of colour, creating a sense of memory.

The art association art-cube e. V. maintains contact and exchange with artists and art associations from the twin city of Osnabrück and invites an Osnabrück artist to Greifswald once a year to present a current artistic work in the art cube.

The exhibition is part of this year’s annual programme, which aims to offer a variety of contemporary perspectives on Caspar David Friedrich and his work.

Exhibition period: 25 May – 07 July 2024
Text & Photos: M. Schramm