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Ever found yourself wondering where reality ends and imagination begins? Be inspired by Berlin-based artist Franziska Goes who makes abstractions that allude to the visually familiar while defying overt legibility. She is sensitively informed by personal observations and encounters with her surroundings. In her upcoming, physical and sensorial experiences of lush nature, pulsating cityscapes and technology collide and coalesce. Bound rhythmically in layered forms, both undulating and rectilinear, a constellation of discrete outlined forms scattered across the composition interrupt, reconfigure and ultimately return the so-called view to flatness. Or do they?

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