With the exhibition Imagination of Matter Galerie Thomas Schulte  presents new works by Berlin-based artist Iris Schomaker. The subject of  Schomaker's almost monochrome works on paper is the human figure in  painterly abstracted form. Her works – which include several  larger-than-life formats – show the human figure at a moment of physical  calm and self-absorption, sometimes loneliness. The traces of the  painting process remain visible and reveal Schomaker's technique adding  to the works a tangible quality. Still, the overall impression is that  of a cool, solitary distance. Seemingly seeking the company of  Schomaker’s anonymous protagonists a fox sometimes appears in the works  as a mute, trustful companion introducing the notion of wilderness to  the domestic interiors the figures inhabit. Schomaker’s works do not  show what actually is, but how it appears and how it feels. Using  figuration, the artist equally explores painterly abstraction thereby  developing her very own characteristic pictorial language.