Regression

Daniela Krtsch uses photography, sculpture, and paintings to explore themes of identity, intimacy and memory intricately woven with personal experiences and imagination. Her work seeks to create a narrative that drifts between the real and the imagined. In Regression, Krtsch draws on psychoanalysis by depicting the psyche in a state of suspension—caught in between memory, isolation, and the quiet unravelling of the self. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung considered this as a necessary descent in the individuation process, a journey where one sheds the persona, confronts their shadow, and moves towards becoming an integrated self. Here, as the subject is immersed in the collective unconscious, it suggests not only a confrontation with the inner world, but also a return to the Self. Recent exhibitions include Some day in may, Salgadeiras Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, (2025); ARCOlisboa Art Fair with Salgadeiras Arte Contemporanea, (2024); Amor, I Love You, Galeria do Pavilhão 31, Lisbon, (2024); Non Finito, Centro de Cultura Contemporânea de Castelo Branco, (2023); Looking for Eden, Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon, (2023).