Rike Droescher

Rike Droescher creates objects and sculptural scenarios in which material, space, and the human body become part of an investigation into how we shape and are shaped by our surroundings. Guided by a largely intuitive process, she weaves a dense web of associations within her work, in which notions of inside and outside, protection and exposure, past and present collide, overlap, and coexist. 

Droescher combines a sensitivity to materials rooted in a primal connection with the earth, such as sand, clay and wood, with her background in textiles. Variations of curtains, clothing and the human hand are recurring motifs. These elements function as both bridges and thresholds between the body and its environment. Re-creations of ordinary objects, along with translated visual images and gestures, enter her sculptural process through associative ties to human origins and cultural anthropology — including the mystery and the speculations, the ancient technologies, as well as the stories humans invented to patch the gaps in the unknown. 

Within the spaces they inhabit, her works engage in dialogue with one another, forming scenarios in which these anthropologies become membranes, memory boxes, and tools for encountering and deciphering the world. Matter and narrative resolve into a tender, playful blur of contemporary and ancient worlds, of marks and wounds and dreams, of humans come and gone— unveiling an archaeology of inner landscapes that seeks to glimpse the core of human existence.