Nan Dia Solos Painting

"There is indeed a world behind this world. And it's constantly moving. As a philosopher without words, I try to make milk glass permeable." "I always thought about writing books, but soon I picked up a brush to find new forms of expression. Words were no longer sufficient to describe what I was dealing with: permanent metamorphic processes in non-obvious areas. Over time, however, I realized that words and language were too ´brained´ and that I lacked the means to express what there was to say. In non-objective painting I then found exactly this possibility of expression. Language is unambiguous, is controlled by the mind and raises us to a conformal level. Painting, on the other hand, deviates from the norm. It leads from the depth into the depth of an experience of being, it is another, for me more open form of communication, which is grasped with other senses and leaves more scope and freedom. Here it is more about experiencing and not understanding." In addition to transformation and permanently metamorphic processes, the focus of her work is the theme of space, accompanied by questions of identity, the alienation and defragmentation of the individual and its location in space and time. Her painting can be understood as a short visual light that gives an insight in a metamorphoric process. Painting, mainly in graphite, acrylic and oil, are complemented by multi-disciplinary art. During the pandemic she has worked with great interest in combining analogue and digital processes. The guiding principle of Nicola Barth's works is TRANSFORMATION. Her endeavor to represent the indeterminable, the changeable in form, shape and space extends to the search for the appropriate language. In doing so, she does not focus on reality, but always on a behind or in-between and tries to capture fleeting, barely graspable snapshots of development processes. Everything is there at the same time and is allowed to be there equally, the levels interpenetrate, are interwoven. This development, transformation and change of form, in turn, often takes place "invisibly" for the viewer, in spaces and worlds behind, on meta-levels, in spaces that are not actually spaces. "The withdrawal and the emergence, the showing of oneself, the superimposition and disappearance... everything is simultaneously and equally allowed to be there, the levels penetrate each other, are interwoven with each other.