What is the implication when one literally flattens an abstraction? This is exactly what artist Kyra Tabea Balderer has done, that is taken dimensional, non-objective compositions and removed their spatiality. The flattening of sculptural works of art by journalistic photography has been happening in art catalogues and periodicals for decades. And obviously for the entirety of the 20th century painters from Malevich to David Reed have been doing the reverse — painting a fictitious abstract world. It is this reason why we find the work of Balderer refreshing to the whole genre of abstract painting and picture-plane-play — whether that be with Lucio Fontana or Frank Stella. Not to mention what this de-parallaxing of structurality does metaphorically: what happens when one flattens ideas of “marriage” of “race” of “business” of “gender”? Q.E.D. 👽🖖