Kirstin Rabe has been treating paper as a fragile material for several years with the intention of sensing its special materiality, thereby constantly expanding her creative possibilities. The prerequisite and animation for the language of form and its haptics is the meditative, sustainable process of paper production and processing. Old newspapers, cotton pulp and pigments are formed into self-cast paper sheets and in further working steps into layered or knotted reliefs. Kirstin Rabe shows a work from the series Strata", in which she arranges the edges of the self-made sheets vertically. Subtle nuances of white tones, the texture of the material, and contrasts between soft surfaces and sharp edges of the paper become visible. The broken, undulating lines of the countless paper planes suggest constant movement, but in their totality they radiate clarity and tranquility, visualizing elemental phenomena of light, color, and texture."