Anabel Leiner

Looking at Anabel Leiner pictures, I get the feeling that I’m in a very pretty room with a small window from which I can see the whole whirlwind of a world, sometimes even my own, that confronts me full of colours, blocking that aggressive black that makes me see everything in darkness. A window with specks of dust, drops of rain, rays of sunshine, taking me to a landscape bursting with sensations, with emotions, where thousands of things happen in a nanosecond and I, I open that window and step into the landscape, the picture, the painting, stealthily, so that no-one can hear me.

Are the colours you use, the geometric forms, the whirlwinds that are drawn suddenly, a response to an internal chaos, and painting them a way of cleaning them or shaking them off, in a way? I mean, the way many writers write to heal themselves, do you paint to heal yourself, to understand yourself?
Every mood has its nuance, there are three components to assert to take room, with one another, against one another or make it on its own. That interaction is a process, which opens a spacial infinite image space. The paintings are a closer examination of world, it is how states feel. All of this simultaneousness is daily undergone. Sometimes I wish to hang on in my own world both eyes shut.

Could you say that the centre of your painting is the heart and that all lines converge there?
Nice question, I guess, it’s not that located, it’s something between brain and heart and unfiltered world.
Computing, the depth with reflecting signals, echoes what ever bares wrong and truth, that slides away, that plots some, quite a lot of this.

Do you have any influences, what are they? What do you draw enrichment from?
I have no influences to be named, mentioning artists or styles. I‘m fascinated of words, ambivalent attractions and music, which kink an angle in the daily coordinates. I’m enriched by reduced impressions, minimalism, sound and thought spaces.

What do you feel when you enter a room and see one of your creations on the wall?
I feel ambivalent about, step nearer or better turn around. I see it through beholder eyes  because I’m not in the process and it somehow separates me from this part of mine. Sometimes it’s difficult to realize, I did it. But it’s a special world and me, this frozen nanosecond.

How do you see the current scene, artistically speaking?
I don’t know much to say about, I see lots of artist with the claim to ‘already-made-it’, but what is ‘it’? Often art becomes a staging room, it’s a entanglement of divers artistic disciplines. I wonder if is this is an extension or if painting for example is longer satisfactory? I like to see art that is in motion, risky in a way -that plays with us, shakes me up, fools me- or brings me closer with an intense moment of cognition or disruption.

Anabel shares her five favourite artists with us:
1. Katharina Trudzinski
2. Sebastian Wickeroth
3. Carsten Nicolai
4. Katharina Grosse
5. Tobias Maring

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