The artist, who studies at Glasgow School of Art, relies in her works on the coincidences of her painting technique to take on them intuitively. Therefore she lets paint with a high water content flow in numerous streaks across the canvas so that the ultra-liquid glaze runs over the surface and initially creates a basic abstract, arbitrary painting field.
The random traces of Wagener's formal preparation are the material dictum of the further process. On the basis of this arbitrariness, the artist's intervention brings shapes and figures out of the traces of the course. The motifs thus created do not originate from a concrete painterly construction, such as a preliminary drawing or a previously conceived narrative concept.
The artist understands her motif worlds much more as part of a found reality within the canvas. Like ghostly appearances, on the doorstep of perception, they seem to manifest themselves only for a period of time, like semi-transparent visitors.
(Text by Niklas Koschel)