Sascha Dettbarn – Between Gesture, Sound and the Unconscious

The paintings of Sascha Dettbarn emerge from an intuitive, automatic process in which conscious control is relinquished in favor of inner impulses.
Somewhere not too far from Surrealist automatism, Abstract Expressionism, and European Informel, his works unfold as dense fields of gesture, color, and material intensity. Dynamic movements and layered chromatic spaces, thresholds where psychic processes, mnemonic fragments, and archetypal images assume visual form.

Dettbarn’s practice deliberately eschews narration and figuration, opening a field of pure presence.
Painting becomes an existential act, an exploration of the liminal zones where the visible and invisible, the conscious and unconscious enter into fleeting dialogue.
The work resists representation in favor of a mode of inquiry into perception, selfhood, and world.

This search extends into Dettbarn’s sound project Sopora, whose immersive, ambient soundscapes function similarly as spaces of transition. Image and sound are interwoven into a holistic artistic practice that transcends language, offering a contemplative encounter with both inner and outer realities.