SCHOLARSHIP WINNER 2023
In Lina Göhle’s images, the light is blindingly bright yet also dimmed – as if from the midnight sun, high in the sky. She controls the shadows around the corner with the utmost care and sensitivity, and we are there. The house with its four sides; the illuminated front stands out against its dark sister drawn in a deep red tone. The animals are simplified like symbolic rock carvings, they’re also there. Memory, reality, dreams. Remnants of the past. The ‘Walk’ man from the pedestrian crossing signal rushes across, but the cat on the street corner stands stiff in the face of his choices.

"I leave my pictures as folded notes that I can carry around with me in my pocket. Notes that you can easily forget you have with you, but that bring a memory to life as soon as the note is unfolded again.

Being able to see how the image shifts each time the note is taken out again. It becomes something new. At the same time, parts of the image are reminiscent of the time when it was drawn, of what was but is no longer.

With drawing, I search for how I can simplify motifs with line and shape. What is brought along, and what is left outside. Like diffuse memories, where parts have been blurred out and only fragments remain."