Sabine Moritz’s work is a manifestation of memory and release. She returns repeatedly to specific scenes from her childhood that have become indelibly imprinted on her psyche. Some works are created entirely from memory, while for others she interrogates the strength of her visual recollections by studying reportage photographs, newspapers, family album snapshots, and other found images. Her paintings portray the personal and collective history of, and the passing of, a period in time.
Moritz first began to work with abstraction in 2015, departing from her usual practice of figurative painting. This new series was devised without any preconceived empirical concept, or formal plan. Instead these works are developed by layering various shades and densities of primary colour to explore the possibilities of colour and bounds of pictorial space.