Annette Kelm Still Life with Spring, 2017

Still-life with Spring is a characteristic example of Kelm's idiosyncratic subject matter, bringing together inexpensive design objects, both mass produced and crafted, and a bouquet of flowers, all posed before bright blue surfaces. A small coil is seen perched on the table: the „spring“ in the work‘s title adds a visual pun and in its recognition, a moment of levity. Behind the economical conjuring of a colorful, yet also unexpectedly meaningful, motif lurks a sense of today's living conditions, a cobbled together scene that speaks to the conditions of modern living in a world of inexpensive design and found objects.