Katinka Lampe @ Alice Amati

Portraiture serves as a means to explore emotion, identity, and the human condition.  In this exhibition, Standstill,  they are frozen in states of ambiguity? Katinka Lampe and Paul Robas’ new portraits are caught in this ambivalence; devoid of any clear meaning, they gaze into the void of the gallery space, luring us in, begging us to come closer to their surface.

​Paul Robas’ portraits, both intimate and elusive, seem to hover on the edge of memory, and faces materialise through blurred layers of paint. By contrast, Katinka Lampe abstracts identity in a different way, she tries to create new and unique images, which exist beyond mimetic representation and allows for possible interpretations.