ausgestellt:

22.05.-12.07.2025 SARAH BECHTER Jostle, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna, AT



Sarah Bechter’s painting is self-aware, as can be seen, for example, in the way the gesticulating duo seems to lean naturally against the edge of the picture. In Framing It For You (2025), the figure itself becomes the architecture: A Titaness framing the empty archway at the center of the image. This ambivalence between figure and ground, between actor and backdrop, between subject and social context, is not only characteristic of Sarah Bechter’s painterly idiom, but also points to the feminist stance articulated through it. The corporeality of the androgynous beings is contained entirely in the painterly gesture that brings them forth—namely, the brushstrokes from which they are constructed. Sinewy, semi-transparent figures who are neither granted to recede behind illusionism nor to dissolve into abstraction. (Leonie Huber, abstract from the exhibition text for ‘Jostle’, 05.2025)