Susanne Gottberg’s paintings take us on a meditative journey into a complex dominion of sensory impressions and emotional states. Her art travels non-linear paths into spatially born dimensions of reality that waver somewhere between abstraction and representation. Her paintings possess a multidimensional spatiality that acts as a mirror, throwing back the viewer’s reflection, yet the world in which her art resides is within the hermetic reality of the painting. Her art builds bridges between painted space and the surrounding physical space, yet the space paradoxically exists only upon the painted surface.

Susanne Gottberg’s latest paintings continue her exploration on spatiality. Gottberg’s paintings create spaces in which time collapses and reality itself is densified. Overlapping realities coexist in her paintings, some obscured, some reflected, some multiplied. The world they inhabit appears to have lost its connection with its original time and place. Sometimes the space is literally multiplied as a painting within a painting. 

Gottberg’s paintings invite us to step into a reality of simultaneous spaces and parallel truths. The spaces she invokes can be found both within the viewer and within every atom around us. In an exalted register, Gottberg shows us how a painting can pose a question to which it is impossible to find an answer.

Gottberg paints mysteries that invite us to reflect on fundamental questions of existence. Encountering her work forces us to slow down and engage in a quiet moment of meditation. Her paintings insist that we not only look, but also listen, accepting that the mystery only deepens over the passage of time.

In Gottberg's paintings the process continues its life from one work to the next: first, there is an interpretation and a reproduction, after which the subject expands and goes off in search of new paths. Finally, we arrive at a point where the process itself becomes the subject, constituting everything. The contours melt into the background, expanding and coalescing with reality.