ChertLüdde presents Secret Secretions, a solo exhibition of works by Annette Frick (b. 1957). The artist, known for her portraits of Berlin’s queer and punk subcultures, presents a very different series in this exhibition: prints from the early 2000s made without a camera that explore the ‘seeds of life’ – flora and semen – with all their complexities and similarities.

The prints and two-part film on display were made with light-sensitive paper from the former GDR using the photogram technique utilized by Man Ray and others. With minimal financial resources, Frick applied this rudimentary but striking photographic method, exposing the paper to light to create blooming, oozing compositions. The large-scale prints, which implement sperm to create unusual shapes, are a direct response to Marcel Duchamp’s Paysage Fautif (Faulty Landscape) of 1946, while the smaller two-sided floral elements provide a more subtle counterpoint. Together, the result is a poetic, black-and-white landscape of organic forms.