Peggy Franck’s expressive installations appear to be an accumulation of many remnants from their own process of creation. The studio is not only a working place for the artist but also a place absorbing her identity and inner being, which she then makes visible to the public.
“Drawing from a store of thought” collects together a selection of recent works which Franck developed during her stay in Berlin. On the ground floor she is showing an arrangement of paintings on different carriers: untreated panels of wood and aluminium, panes of acrylic glass, black reflecting glass, and canvas, onto which glowing, often almost pastel colours are applied as thick sweeps of the brush, drops or series of stripes like sample colour charts. They give the impression of tests or remnants from a painting studio but their hanging is classical, as if in a salon or a 19th century art museum.
In the upper exhibition area, Franck has set up a ‘wall’ in the middle of the space made from a large, iridescent panel of acrylic glass. The ‘wall’ creates both distance and a window – the iridescence of the acrylic glass giving the whole thing the aura of a huge soap bubble made of plastic and reflecting the outside world and the viewer at the same time.