Annette Kelm Allium (Together), 2021
Allium is a work from Annette Kelm’s series of floral still-life arrangements. The work depicts an arrangement of allium flowers together with safflowers standing upright in a metal spring. Right in front of the assemblage is a small copper spring with a square metal part forming an arbitrary to it. In the background, blue and yellow paper sheets of various sizes are arranged to form a collage with the arrangement in the foreground.
It is one part of Annette Kelm’s practice to arrange different motifs such as industrial mass-produced objects, flowers, and materials to create balanced compositions, between photorealistic representation of things and or the dissolution into abstraction.