BASED IN SWITZERLAND | BORN IN GERMANY
my personality | black, white, pink, blood red | ... some people call me a kalashnikov but actually I am an architect | planet | venus | favourite colour | pink | 2nd favourite colour | light blue | colour I hate most | definitely brown | when I was little | I wanted to become a nun | artistically interested in | the surreality of the existential | the essence of life | love vs. sex | dreams | identity | transience | repetition | healing | poetry & japanese philosophies | I love | the sky | the smell of orange blossom | men in long johns | butterbrezeln | playing basketball | nail polish | literature and music | I hate | better dont ask | when I paint | I‘m alone and enjoy the peace and quiet | in doubt | always black | by conviction | rebellious | my mission | the same we all have | to overcome life.
Artist Statement
« For me, the attraction of artistic creation lies not in the denial of reality, but in the recognition of its surreality. »
In Sarah Stifter's pictorial worlds, her surreal, perceived perception and her opulent dreams overlap to form a collage. The fusion of these two worlds allows them to become reality in the form of the painted image.
In her strikingly attractive world of colour, nothing seems perfect except for a first fleeting glance at her paintings. At second glance, gloomy realities usually reveal themselves. In an ironic, sometimes painful, morbid or even cynical way, she deals with deeply human experiences, feelings and realities. With the aim to sharpen the eye for the invisible, to recognise the obvious behind the apparent and to experience the essence of being.
« Essentially, I am interested in the existential -
the abstruseness of being human in all its facets. »
Once a trained media designer, she makes use of digital media. She dematerialises the world around her with her Fuji X100S camera and digitally gives raw images a new colourfulness. She cuts up, collages, sketches and arranges her surreal image worlds on the computer. Painting serves her as a medium of translation for the invisible and artificially created image to make it perceptible and real for everyone.