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Conny Maier’s art discloses the quandaries underlying the possibilities and pressures of our time. The distinctive aesthetic of her paintings provides a framework for her to tell stories, make up fundamental questions and force the viewer to reflect itself within a confusion of standards.

In Am Rothenbaum, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Paris, Maier re-narrates the story of one of the most significant attacks in the history of sports, the stabbing of Monica Seles. During a tennis tournament in Hamburg 1993, Günter Parche, a great admirer of Seles’ closest rival Steffi Graf, stabbed the …