Sofie Bird Møller

Good at leaving things out!

For Wilhelm Schürmann, the prominent collector and exhibition organiser from Aachen, Sofie Bird Møller is "very good at leaving things out", and so in his introductory text he ties a ribbon for her admired omissions and overpaintings. This solo publication is the first solo documentation and comprehensive presentation of the still small oeuvre of Günther Förg's student. Perhaps the most astonishing thing about these overpaintings, which work just as well in small format as on the large overpainted billboards that the young artist has already executed on various occasions "at night" in Munich, London and Berlin, is that the subject seems to have been made for this kind of expressive attack, as if a terribly boring circumstance had been waiting precisely for this intoxicating, such an explosion. The execution seems fast, which reinforces this impression, and yet is so precise that the puzzle-like collapse seems quite logical. In addition to the acrylic works - Sofie Bird Møller calls her overpainted magazine pages and billboards Interferences - the volume shows a whole series of reworked engravings. The artist's interventions seem like retouching, corrections that dissolve the historicity of the source material into timelessness.