AFRA LOTTERBECK IN THE POOL / Mongi Higgs

• Size: 70 x 100 cm
• Medium: Spray on cardboard
• Ready to hang: yes
• Signature: reverse side, also signed certificate
• Year: 2025
• Shipping: framed in appropriate shipping packaging
• Delivery times: 8 – 14 working days (depending on size, customs formalities, etc.)
• incl. legal. VAT

Afra Lotterbeck is not from Oberschweinbach. She is stranded here – between a new development area and a dead zone. Her parents, wealthy and overambitious, have bought themselves a “modern country life”: an architect’s house with a glass front, pool and robotic lawnmower. For Afra, this means summer without Wi-Fi, barbecues with “Mr. Mayor” and waiting for the next train back to the city.

The picture shows her in the pool – or rather: underwater, upside down. Her face is blurred in a cloudy mixture of spray colors. The blue dominates, almost sterile, like chlorinated water. The lips: bright pink, slightly blurred, seem more artificial than real. Eyes and brows roughly set, more make-up than expression. Her identity seems to float on the surface.

The use of a piece of sycamore wood for the indentation – a deliberately “natural” tool – contrasts with the artificiality of the motif. The rough cracks in the cardboard, barely visible, break the smooth aesthetic and hint at it: Even in the clearest pool idyll, something scratches the surface.

In the context of Oberschweinbach in August, Afra is the stranger. Not out of spite, but out of boredom. She is the summer girl in the wrong setting – too urban for the village youth, too young for the wine spritzer romance of her parents.

And so it lies there, in the water, in the picture, in the transition –

not submerged, not liberated.

Simply:

Afra Lotterbeck. In the pool.