Ping-Pong Ball on Canvas III

Karin Sander renders visible that which is already present but has hitherto escaped perception, existing in a latent state. In her sculptures and installations, she often uses everyday objects and incorporates the architectural features of the space into her production processes, transforming the space into a part of her work through her interventions. Sander’s series "Ping-Pong Ball on Canvas" takes the surface of the canvas as a field of play and transforms the object of the game into the material of the painting. For this series, the artist throws a white ping-pong ball at an unprimed canvas and fixes it to the spot it hits, composing a three-dimensional picture. The game of ping-pong is particularly significant to Sander for its connotations of competition, negotiation and dialogue. The ping-pong ball we encounter in Sander’s work has been isolated from the game as we know it, or has entered a new field of play.