In her still lifes, portraits and sculptural interventions, Astrid Styma (born 1988, lives and works in Düsseldorf) creates an intimate connection between the self and its surroundings. With only a few protagonists, whom the artist integrates into her pictorial world, this complex web of relationships is achieved through very simple interventions in the arrangement. In this composition in space, the initially classical subjects she chooses convey a narrative level that tells us about proximity and strangeness, joy and pain.