Simone Albers (1990) is fascinated by the laws of the cosmos and the complexity of the natural world. She approaches these phenomena from a natural scientific and a philosophical angle to delve into what lies hidden behind the immediate perceptible. In doing so, she switches between large and small scale, from microscopic cellular structures to black holes of the universe. Her paintings are composed of soft geometric shapes in pastel shades on which tightly accented ribbons meander across the canvas like a DNA strand.
Attached to them are shapes reminiscent of microscopic single-celled organisms, corals or jellyfish. Simultaneously they can be read as celestial bodies and supernovas on a macro level. The ribbons are painted with a mix of sand and paint, giving them sharpness and relief, which makes them seem to float above the soft geometric background. Their swirling form conveys a continuous movement to the image.