The often large scale drawings are a strange mix of high and low culture, humor and seriousness, past and present. Several works on paper feature a standing naked man, based on the portrait of the 18th century politician Richard Burke by Joshua Reynolds. He seems to be an anachronistic witness who observes our complex society with its overflow of information and images.

Sebastiaan Schlicher (1974) started a series of drawings in 2022 with the title Pink Adrenaline, a nickname for the chemical compound Adrenochrome that can induce thinking  disorders and delusions. The series was created during the lockdowns in the corona pandemic and reflects the feeling of isolation, emotional confusion and powerlessness. The drawings have an overwhelming energy of winding lines in which faces and figures emerge and fictitious diary entries and story fragments wander around. Earlier, Schlicher began experimenting with sound works that produce an unpredictable series of sounds and rhythms. The tangle of transistors, fuses and winding wires has the same energy as the Pink Adrenaline drawings and seems to symbolize the inscrutable algorithms that increasingly dominate our lives. In addition to the drawings, a few of Schlicher’s noise machines can be seen and heard in the exhibition.