Aline Schwibbe (b. 1988, lives and works in Berlin) is an interdisciplinary artist, working across drawing, photography, textiles, video, sound, sculpture and scent. She draws from fragmented memories and elusive dreamscapes to evoke narratives that are cyclical, refusing chronological legibility and linear resolution.
Schwibbe's works are multi-layered: photographs or film stills are printed onto plush velvet, then worked over with oil pastel and spray lacquer, while the velvet's nap is disrupted to reveal the fabric"s materiality. This layering strengthens the illusion of depth and suggests that parts have been concealed to remain inaccessible to the viewer, just as memory itself resists full retrieval, surfacing only in fragments. Her works often show spaces that are void of human subjects. The traces of their inhabitants, such as a flickering light or an empty bed and closed gate, remain static while the overlaid drawings, restless and almost violent, appear like spectres mediating between realms.
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