Hey, you!

Out there on your own

Sitting naked by the phone.

Would you touch me?

Hey, you!

Don't tell me there's no hope at all.

Together we stand,

Divided we fall. 

The most recent works show often the motif of the mobile phone, as is the case with the large-format charcoal drawings of humans, which are almost life-size and stare into space with wide, circular eyes. With the cell phone in their left hand, the two stare past us into infinity. The facial expression of the two naked people generates a wide variety of associative images. What can be seen is also the trace of something absent. The visible and the invisible are related to one another in a dialectic of perception and imagination.

Roger Waters and Benita Meißner mixed by Heike Kati Barath November 2020

Song text: Hey You © Warner Chappell Music, Inc, BMG Rights Management

Heike Kati Barath (*1966) paints in Berlin, teaches in Bremen and lives in between.