Thinking lines, 2019-20

People chase or hug their shadows. The mountains have mouths and eyes, the beach can also see. (...) Bitter faces on strange bodies act in ways you don't understand. The loving look of a woman falls on a face of mud ... is it really a woman? Nothing is what it appears, but the appearance catches your gaze, you cannot look away. To answer your questions, you will have to immerse yourself in worlds that only raise more questions - unless you acquire the ability to let contradictions exist, perhaps even to enjoy them. It takes courage, because your gaze will also inevitably fall on the darkest corners of existence, which society demands we displace into the deepest corners of our consciousness - sacrificing the richness of a diversity that, even beyond existing social structures, illuminates further worlds and world perceptions. Somewhere in all of us there must be a longing to accept all things without bias or prejudice, just as they stand to each other. This longing - paired with the reflexive urge for explanation and order - is, I suspect, the inherently contradictory reason why our gaze remains fixed on Eva Pedroza's worlds.

Fragment of Fanny Sorgo’s catalogue contribution for the exhibition Sirene – Goldrausch 2020 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien.