"Curve"

found footage on cardboard

titled, signed, dated and numbered (pencil) on frame verso

"I take everything out of context, collect, rearrange, put together loose parts, mixing materials and techniques. I create my own order out of the chaos of abundance. I am a flaneur. That's why I live in the city mostly. I love to study people, faces, gestures, movements. Nature gives me horizon. Be naive in everything you do. The pictures are there – listen."
Miriam Tölke

When German photographer Miriam Tölke started studying at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart at the beginning of this century, she began collecting discarded things: magazines, notebooks, books, catalogs. With these found objects, scraps of paper, loose leaves and fragments from her accumulated photo - archive, she began to make collages. Faces are halved and combined with parts of other faces and landscapes that reflect the peace and harmony of nature. Glossy photographs from glossy magazines and fashion magazines are merged with images that express the hectic anonymity of her busy, crowded hometown of Berlin. This creates “spiritual landscapes” that reflect both the spirit of the times and Tölke's poetic way of thinking.
(Jan Pieter Ekker, in: Het Parool, 14.7.2022, Amsterdam, translated by deepL)