Author: Aimée Hoffmann
Year: 2023
Series: PostPartum
Materials: Oil & resin on canvas
Measurements: 300 x 200 x 15 cm
Author: Aimée Hoffmann
Year: 2023
Series: PostPartum
Materials: Oil & resin on canvas
Measurements: 300 x 200 x 10 cm
Title: Undercut
Author: Aimée Hoffmann
Year: 2023
Series: PostPartum
Materials: Oil & resin on canvas
Measurements: 300 x 200 x 10 cm
Author: Aimée Hoffmann
Year: 2023
Series: PostPartum
Materials: Mixed technique on canvas
Measurements: 150 x 200 cm
Author: Aimée Hoffmann
Year: 2023
Series: PostPartum
Materials: Oil & resin on canvas
Measurements: 150 x 200 cm
happening. She poses the question of the role of women and what expectations they themselves, but also society in
different cultures, have of a mother. An important part of the theme consists of her own expectations and relationship with
her mother correlated to the changes that herself experienced with the birth of her child. She tries to express these
complicated interactions between being a mother and being a child, between the different cultures that shaped her, in
plastic works, some of which reach a size of up to 3 metres. The canvas is torn, cut up, sawn, patched, covered with fabric
and resin, thus acquiring a third dimension. She plays with soft pastel colours and hard shapes or symbols to illustrate to the
viewer both the suffering and the redemption of birth. They embrace the burden of women living in a continuum between
self-sacrifice and self-assertion and visualise the mother's attempt to unite several identities and personalities in a single
person, a single body, and the difficulties of satisfying the different needs of the others around her as well as her own. „How
do you deal with all the expectations, all the guilt that comes with it, the dissolution of yourself or the mother inside of you,
with the transformation of your body? Is there any mother who never felt that much pressure that she arrived to the point
to ask herself if she is a bad mother? “ she asked.
point of the utmost reduction of their philosophical implications by most of the famed philosophers of the West and East“
(Lintott/Sander-Staudt 2011, 3). „ With my Series Post-Partum, I want throw a spotlight to this unspoken hardship, the fears
and processes, which mothers suffer, and I mean all mothers, biological and adoptive mothers, noncustodial mothers,
stay-at-home mothers, working mothers, young and old mothers, those who find their maternity to be accidental or
contingent, and those who do not want to be identified as such.“
She is what in politics is known as a citizen with a migrant background. Her father was a North German and her mother is from the Caribbean. Her life has been characterised by contrasts, by the question and search for identity. In both countries she always felt somehow different but also part of it, even if an exotic part. She says to have acquired characteristics from both cultures, consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally and her artworks are characterised by this perpetual repulsion and attraction.
She grew up in the multicultural area of Kreuzberg in Berlin but at the age of 18 she moved to Pietrasanta, a tuscan village which is of great importance for art, both historically and in modern times, despite its provinciality. Its proximity to the marble quarries in Carrara has been the starting point for a strong culture of sculpture and art in general in the province. Whilet working for the LAPIDARIUM project and becoming the head of the communication department she learnt the craft of sculpting, molding, casting and the practice of the creation of diverse patina from the Artegiani and the Maestro. She studied in Florence and Pisa (Art history, Communication and Press, event management, Chinese) and began to travel a lot, for professional reasons but also out of personal wanderlust.
The desire to realise her own works led her to leave the project and move back to Berlin and open her own art studio in Neukölln.
the Artist
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