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ArchiveBorn in 1977 in Hattingen, Germany.
Playing essentially with the architectural qualities of her surroundings, Sinta Werner’s architectonic installations deconstruct and fragment the space - creating not merely optical illusions but even elaborate fictitious environments through which the viewer’s perception is misled by wrongfooted expectation and disorientation – therefore dissolving conventional ways of seeing and representing. These different scenarios are achieved by various techniques such as collage, pictorial arrangements in space and scenographic installations involving geometrical structures as well as architectural elements. Werner produces her stage sets for her games of illusion in an almost painterly manner, devising similarities without wanting to simulate perfection. Her practice deals with the concept of “optimal point of view“ and more commonly of one-point-perspective from which the space appears flat and pictorial. This interest in the interval state between picture and space is influenced by principles taken from the theatrical stage and Werner thus engages with the tradition of illusionistic painting.
 Sinta Werner, Disjunction, 2007, Wood and paint, Site specific installation |
