Plato's Pharmacy

First exhibited in spring 2017 in the artist’s second solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Plato’s Pharmacy and Dunesday—with their intriguingly alliterative titles—illustrate her sophisticated collage fakery. Both paintings depict the same row of bowling pins (the second of which is actually a long-necked bottle) against a background filled with abstract patterning, envisaged by the artist
as a “stage design.” Describing the works as a “goofy take on still life and metaphysical surreal- ism,” von Heyl likens the bowling pins to “Giorgio de Chirico’s tailor dolls—silent stand-ins for people—and here they are standing on the edge of the canvas in the exact same stupid way in both paintings, waiting for the ball.”