could've would've should've

The ambition to create images purely from imagination runs through Louis Wuttke's entire œuvre, not necessarily in a non-representional way, but as far as possible without recourse to what he has seen: neither to observation nor to direct memory.

One of the formal rules according to which he creates his images has led to could've would've should've. The drawings were made directly on the transparent sheets that were later used to expose the offset plates; and by superimposing the sheets during the drawing process, each image is based on the palimpsests of the previous ones. The book pages, transparent as well, allow a close approximation of this drawing process when viewed.

"There is no certainty. Everything can look like something else."