Alice Amati, London
Annabelle Agbo Godeau & Rike Droescher
Alice Amati presents a two-person booth for Art-o-rama, featuring works by Düsseldorfbased artists Annabelle Agbo Godeau and Rike Droescher. Both graduates of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, they share a deep interest in material experimentation and in crafting visual narratives that exist at the intersection of personal and cultural histories.
Working across painting, works on paper, and installation, Agbo Godeau constructs fragmented narratives that resist resolution, employing visual metaphors of concealment, revelation, and transformation. Through layered and meticulous processes, she isolates details from archival materials, film stills, photographs, and found imagery, abstracting them into new contexts that invite viewers to reconsider their assumptions and associations. This becomes particularly evident in her works on transparent waxed paper, which, when exhibited in installative configurations, bring together disparate references to create collagelike storyboards. These compositions balance narrative and openness, evoking both specific moments and broader temporal sequences.
Rike Droescher’s hand-stitched embroideries and sculptures reproducing ordinary objects through the use of organic material such as wax, clay, and wood, explore the correlation between ancestral archetypes and the contemporary world. Her works craft unexpected narratives that intertwine the mythological with the familiar, transforming seemingly fragmented moments into explorations of human origins, stories, and desires. By assembling disparate elements, she creates layered works that function as a memory box or survival kit for navigating the complexities of life in today’s fractured world.
Working across different mediums, both artists employ a process of reconfiguring found references in unexpected ways. Rather than offering a prescribed, fixed reading, their works invite reflection on how we shape—and are shaped by—our surroundings, as well as on the enduring impact of history on the present and our understanding of the self.
