KATHARINA REYNHOUDT
PAINTER
FOCUSED ON
SURREAL
OIL PAINTING
& STILL LIFE
ZURICH

Intrigued by the unnoticed, the seemingly unimportant and sometimes almost invisible, I look at everyday objects, people and fragments of cultural memory.
I pull them apart, rearrange them and give them new meaning — turning familiar things into slightly unfamiliar situations.

My curious, acquisitive mind tends to project meaning onto things that might otherwise pass unnoticed. I’m interested in that space between recognition and uncertainty: when an object feels familiar, but you’re no longer quite sure what you’re looking at or what it is supposed to mean.

My work explores cracks in perception, giving my inner child room to roam, experiment and assign what it finds a role in the play that unfolds. I let my inner child roam freely, allowing it to explore and giving what it finds a role in the play that emerges. In this way, I become a storyteller. My work grows out of observation, research and imagination.

I develop narratives or take existing subjects and shift them into new contexts. My attention often turns to the overlooked, the ambiguous or the difficult to identify — things and fragments that are given a role of their own and open up new ways of seeing.