Ulrike Gaiser deliberately lets go of the smooth and the perfect. Her work follows the idea of wabi-sabi: the quiet beauty of the imperfect and the transient.

Using marble dust, plaster and slaked lime, she builds up structures in which natural cracks form as they dry. With inks, stains, earths and pigments, combined with deliberate chemical reactions, she creates surfaces that look as if nature had shaped them over decades.

Every trace speaks of change and invites the viewer to pause and reconnect with their own inner strength.