Nadine Wölk is a picture hunter. Her mobile phone archive contains almost 50,000 photos. She captures everyday urban scenes and lettering, especially at night, but there are also numerous screenshots among them. The artist selects images from this pool, fragments, sharpens and blurs, combines, shifts and assembles them in order to mould what she sees into something new in graphite and biros drawings and paintings. In her works, she thus merely imitates the style of an unadorned snapshot - artfully arranged. In doing so, Nadine Wölk distances herself from the original photograph and at the same time questions the memory of place, people, mood, sounds and smells that seem to be transported along in an image.
As if Nadine Wölk were standing in the tradition of "film noir", her works live through strong light-dark contrasts of all shades, those grey areas that surround the lives of night owls in their urban existence: Food scraps, dogs, policemen, tracksuits, smokers, hooded people, caps, cars - ingredients of our living world whose reality we should always be better off doubting. Is it all just a dream?