Life can be likened to a movie shown only once to a captive audience of one, a darkened auditorium in which the level of illumination is a decision for the solitary occupant. To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.

I am a reluctant human being and society is my confinement, a prison in which the inmates have been convinced that really they are free. My gaolers are troubled by their own shallows, the fears they have of others are the fears they have about themselves cunningly repackaged to increase their legal appeal.

My name is Bethany Procopio and I am an American-born Basel-based painter.

Christine Philipp challenges the traditional expectation of representation and perception. She chooses day-to-day subject matters and estranges them from their original context and meaning. Ordinary places as a garage, playground or staircase are turned into distant and quiet environments. Through personal intervention her subjects become distorted and result in images that create an ‘unheimlich’ atmosphere. Christine has the ability to restrict her images to their barest essentials; she has the gift to show only what is really necessary.