KATI HECK – THE BRODO
2025-11-17In The brodo, Heck continues her long-standing exploration of the transformative processes that bind human, social, and emotional life. Known for her virtuosic handling of paint and her ability to merge realism with absurdity, Heck constructs a world in which tenderness and grotesque humor coexist, constantly dissolving into one another. Her practice has always moved between the theatrical and the intimate, between the instinctive gesture and the meticulously staged tableau. Here, that dynamic takes the form of a metaphorical soup, a social and spiritual broth in which everything is connected and nothing remains stable.
A drawing/collage functions as the exhibition’s abstract recipe, pairing a simple ladle with a written formula. Part instruction, part incantation, it distills Heck’s practice into its most essential gesture: the act of mixing. The piece operates like a dadaist statement, binding intuition and absurdity within a single frame. It is as if the artist were revealing her own method: not a recipe to be followed, but a process of perpetual recombination, of letting the ingredients of experience simmer until something new emerges.
Opposite – Bindemittel II, 2025
Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2026
Tim Van Laere Gallery
Palazzo Donarelli Ricci
Via Giulia 98
00186 Rome
