In her solo-presentation “Buried in Thought” Konstanze Stoiber dissects archetypes of a Monarchy with a focus on the queen and her landscape. Stoiber questions how symbols remain present in collective or personal European conscience - the mental imagery of inactive imperial ruins. In her large-scale oil paintings, blurred landscapes reveal themselves before our inner eye paralleling visual means of imagination. A foreign time period is cited by using traditional hand-embroidered table cloth with an anonymous red emblem sewn into a pillow of seemingly infinite length. Stoiber found the fabric in her neighbours house in which a knight once lived. Allegories of a queen are shaped by mythologies, film and introspective perceptions. In an attempt to give the nebulous precise meaning, she is reconciling opposites: the symbol of the queen remains familiar, partially unknown or unknowable.    “In January of 2019 my opposite neighbour passed away, leading to my brother’s acquisition of his property. As the heirs refused ownership of the material remains, I was granted access to the cultural remnants of four generations. Moved by the grandeur of my neighbour’s garden I was attracted to the attentive dissimilarity characterising each room. Throughout the following months of solitude, I meticulously collected objects of intrigue and repeatedly photographed the space. The physical realm became a place for a pacifying, selective way of seeing. Upon finding prayer cards, orders of chivalry or crosses blessed by Pope John Paul II, I contemplated how the ideological remnants of the Austro- Hungarian empire and Catholicism infiltrate contemporary personal conviction.” (Konstanze Stoiber, H.T. book, 2022)