On Desire

Carina Linge

As in her previous works, Carina Linge draws on the allegorical iconography of the Renaissance and the Baroque, yet at the same time she refers to the present. Impressions, shadows and the residual heat of people or things are depicted in her images. Linge’s works refer to the past, to things that have never existed, things that are missed or desired, stagnation, death, loss — to something that is gone or was never there to begin with. What is absent, or the blank space, is for the viewer to fill with knowledge, memory, imaginations. Desire lurks in the imagination itself. In the work titled Infrathin, for example, Linge refers to the fragmentary nature of momentary images, and shows that every object perceived relates both to the visible and to the invisible.