not quite there

In their exhibition not quite there, Anja Nowak and Letizia Werth interweave two artistic practices that engage with temporality, transformation and language in different ways. This creates dialogues between material, space, and memory — quiet conversations between objects bearing traces and making processes visible.

Anja Nowak’s Linien Bilder (Line Images) present a system that is constantly changing: wooden panels stretched with white rubber bands respond to tension, expansion and decay. The elasticity of the rubber serves as a metaphor for a natural process that can be interpreted both physically and conceptually — a subtle archive of repetition, passing and transformation. Their flexible arrangement in space opens up an exchange with the surrounding environment, where structure and dissolution remain inseparably intertwined.

Letizia Werth’s series Elsewhere features used domestic fabrics — textiles that have already been part of conversations, everyday routines and forgotten moments. Through graphic interventions using graphite and ink, these cloths are removed from their functional context and transformed into fragile pictorial spaces that resemble windows onto another place. The deliberate manipulation of the materials — folding, drawing, stretching or draping — points to a poetic shift in time and meaning.

Both approaches address unspoken narratives, traces of memory and the significance of non-verbal communication. Their works can be read as visual protocols of an exchange — between body and material, and between moment and duration. Together, they form a finely woven network that speaks not only of time, but also of its relativity: of shifted rhythms, disrupted processes, and the power of the ephemeral.