BUBBLES #7: Beate Frommelt & Carla Hohmeister – Anscheinend

The room-filling, textile work Seems captures a fleeting moment and allows time to be experienced physically and spatially.

The soap bubble has been considered a symbol of transience since the Baroque period. It represents beauty and fleetingness and, as an allegory, stands for the fact that something can be attractive but at the same time empty of content, beautiful, dazzling, disappeared in the next moment. In artistic representations, for example in paintings, the soap bubble appears in combination with other vanitas motifs that represent the fleetingness of beauty, power and material wealth. Sometimes even Godfather Death was depicted with a soap bubble instead of a scythe to emphasize this aspect.

The slow embroidery – stitch by stitch, over weeks and months – contrasts with the moment of the bubble. Time is literally inscribed in the material here. The thread in itself is a "thing without properties". It is only through its processing that the material – woven into a texture – takes on its creative purpose.

In their artistic collaboration, Beate Frommelt (*1973) and Carla Hohmeister (*1973) combine drawing, painting, digital and textile processes to create precise site-specific settings that deal with questions of perception, image creation and spatial experience. Both artists are interested in the transformation of images in the field of tension between material, distance and context.

Beate Frommelt works with fine structures, lines and material structures that subtly structure spaces and make perceptual processes visible. Carla Hohmeister, with her background in theatre painting, brings a pronounced sensitivity for illusion, visual effect and spatial staging. Together, they develop works in which precision and openness overlap.