When the horizon becomes wider, painting does not remain hidden either. Visibility is too great, and there is no time at all to expand the picture into the world. Stefanie Winter brings image and world back into balance for a few moments: what is visible also becomes tangible. Coloured satin ribbons form decorative bows, but they convey messages that are not ornamental. Layers of colour clothe a pictorial body, but they do not penetrate its pores. Canvas recedes as a surface, but also emerges as a curvature. In the end, it is not about ribbon, foil or cushion. Just as the world is not just outside or just inside, painting is not just a surface or just a certain thing. It emerges visually, but also haptically. In Stefanie Winter’s works, what letters always conceal becomes form.