Caterina Renaux Hering creates artworks that span a diverse range of media, all driven by the intent to lend forms for the mystifying subjective substances that animate emotions. She engages with drawings, ceramic sculptures, assemblages, music, costumes, and performance as vehicles for crafting a language that resonates with the most delicate and dense aspects of sensibility. Her work places the body at the center of these investigations, exploring themes such as transience, eroticism, delight and duration, in a quest to make sense out of genuine sensation.
Her artistic path begins with a lifelong dedication to drawing. Sketching serves as her Ariadne’s thread, as if the confidently pulled long lines acted as guides for navigating the labyrinth of subjectivity, packing depths into shapes and emerging from abstraction towards clarity.
The aesthetics developed by Caterina achieve a unique appearance due to the fact that the artist doesn’t solely interacts with the surface of materials but also engages with how the materiality of the medium itself shapes what is conveyed to the viewer’s gaze. To this end, her studio is referred to as a laboratory for experimenting and inventing techniques that playfully mimic the substances central to the themes she explores. Among her chosen materials are resin, silicon, fabrics and suggestive debris, which she entitles “poetic leftovers”. In this process of creative inquiry, accidents and accomplishments are weaved together, yielding novelties, and embracing the unexpected for manufacturing enchanting results.
Caterina was born in 1985, in the south of Brazil and currently lives in Berlin where she in 2023 finished her master degree in Fine Arts at Universität der Künste – UDK, under the mentorship of Professor Valérie Favre.