Conny Maier | Drowning | Galerie Société | 13.09.-02.11.2024

Water and liquids are central motifs in the artist’s work, appearing in scenes in which they gush from human bodies, flow from urns or serve as a backdrop for enigmatic bathing scenes. Maier’s latest paintings take an even more pronounced aquatic turn, treating the notion of drowning – which evokes associations with the subconscious, the loss of control and the dissolution of the self – as an immersion into the deep, primal aspects of the psyche.

For Maier, the metaphor of drowning symbolises the overwhelming nature of catastrophe, be it personal, political or ecological. But in this turmoil, she also finds the potential for renewal: the possibility of emerging from the depths reborn, purified and transformed