Curator: Please give our readers a bit of background about your studio/design practice.

Sabine Finkenauer: My artistic practice is based on a profound investigation of forms. Starting with figurative language drawn from images linked to childhood, femininity, the domestic environment, and nature, this research has evolved over the years into a process of clarification and synthesis and led to the development of a vocabulary of simple forms inspired by geometry and ornamentation. The pictorial approach lies on the border between figuration and abstraction, idea and representation. Drawing, of vital importance in my process, constitutes the starting point for the elaboration and materialization of my ideas on a visual level. The motifs are developed in my sketchbooks and transformed through a process of careful observation before migrating to other media and materials. My artistic method can be defined as a game whose rules I playfully establish and, above all, as a search for simplicity that sways within a field of complex boundaries.