Miriam Tölke DE, b. 1977

“Miriam Tölke’s multi-layered collages have the dream quality of the young Surrealism; they are playing fields of a calculated montage technique that immediately relativizes any viewer confidence in the image and the quotation of reality by the next layer. Good pictures are characterized by the fact that the longer one looks at them, the more layers of meaning they reveal. In modernism, this includes not least the theme of ‘art about art'. On closer inspection, one would find cinematographic traces, cross-fading, for example, even in a double, ironic cross-fade that...