Edge Conditions

Jörn Stoya presents a series of paintings titled Home in his new exhibition at Petra Rinck Galerie.Home here refers to a familiar place of memory. A boundless reservoir, populated with moments reaching back to the Stone Age and firmly anchored in our subconscious, which can influence every decision on the canvas. A reservoir from which the artist, like every person, draws, and which we cannot shed because it is anchored in our being.Stoya uses this English term because it does not mean the German words "Heimat" or "zuhause", but rather the pool of information and images that is accessible to everyone, collectively gathered and connected with our personal history. Pictures thus arise not as the result of a singular effort, but as a continuation of a work that the cave painters of the Stone Age began. And since at least the 20