Nicole Hollmann sacrifices the precise articulation and delineation of her subjects in favor of impressions of their forms and – above all – colors. Her pictures do not impose any particular reading on viewers, dictating how they should see the world around them. Instead, they challenge us to fill the space left open by the reduced pictorial information with our own experiences and emotions. The personal imagery that thus emerges is often more precise than the kind of obtrusively sharp focus that often conceals more than it reveals.
