Ladina Durisch, born in Zurich in 1970, lives and works as an art-painter in Zurich. In her series of works entitled “Shadows,” Swiss artist Ladina Durisch creates impressive visual worlds that combine the visible with the fleeting and sharpen our perception of the invisible in everyday life. In her precise yet sensitive visual language, reality and perception are condensed into poetic snapshots.
In the works of this series, the fleeting becomes the main protagonist. Here, Ladina Durisch deliberately focuses on reduction and contrast: shadows are not visible as the absence of light, but as autonomous forms that overlay architectural structures, landscapes, or bodies. Her shadow paintings are more than mere outlines—they are silent narratives about presence and absence, about what remains when the visible disappears.
Ladina Durisch's works testify to a deep engagement with perception, temporality, and the relationship between subject and environment. Her paintings, which the artist has been creating exclusively in oil for almost 50 years, unfold a multi-layered panorama that invites the viewer to pause and look closely.