Malene Hartmann's paintings are shown at Hvidovre Main Library. At first glance they read as striped surfaces with overlapping and offset horizons, but the longer you look, camouflaged figures emerge, and colour and texture form motifs that both shimmer and suggest depth.
The works carry a sense of loss and anticipation, a feeling of something having been and something about to become. The library, as a place of gathering and storytelling, gives the exhibition an added layer: the painted stripes echo book spines arranged like a rhythmic landscape of colour, and the variations and shifts in the stripes recall how stories unfold through letters and sentence structure.
