Monika Radhoff-Trolls sand paintings capture real traces of life and nature, (L'object trouvé). Removed from their surroundings onto a sand coated canvas - with material originally from the point of origin - similar traces arise. These impressions create space for looking at well-known things in a new perspective.

The paintings seem to be poetic landscapes – but all of them are deserted. Human traces are barely or not at all existent. Finiteness and memory are subject. Hardly anything else but sand can make this clear. Sand blows away, collapses back upon itself, is insecure.
Nature is as fragile as the sand the motives are painted on. A lot of it we don’t know how to preserve. Therefore on the one hand the painted non-permanent moments represent the past. On the other hand paradoxically show a possible future world: aesthetical landscapes, characterized by human absence.