Maxima Painting

Francisca Rosner paints women and girls from the fashion world. Some of them she leaves behind on an alienated catwalk, others are placed in a setting that evokes associations with an abstract landscape, maps, and patterns of substances and plants. By choosing to paint the woman against a meaningful or enigmatic background, Rosner gives them a new identity, freeing them from their status as objects. The boundaries between foreground and background blur: the women who apparently want to step into the foreground partly dissolve into their camouflage-like environment. People turn into plants... turn into dust... turn into maps and maps turn into landscapes. With this poetic approach and the interplay between the visible and partly concealed or obscured, the paintings arouse questions about the space the figures eventually occupy.