Artwork part of the "Psychic Series". "For the “Psychic” series (2006-2008), which she created during her studies at Columbia University in New York, she visited countless fortune-tellers. Their character readings served as the basis for her depictions of oversized faces. In the “Psychic” paintings, where we might usually encounter eyes, nose, and mouth, we find abstract patterns and shades that invite viewers to project subjectivity into them. For Brätsch, the “Psychics” visualize energy forms or “Power Heads” that are supposed to “stare back” at the viewer. Brätsch undercuts not only our expectations of the genre of the portrait but also formulates a central subject of her work: the relationship between painting and subjectivity – a connection that is softened, destabilized, and sometimes parodied in her work." - Museum Brandhorst, "Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation" "Il pluriennale interesse per la medianità collega direttamente questa serie di disegni ai suoi precedenti Psychics (2006-2008) nei quali, facendo ricorso a letture divinatorie, l’artista esplorava simultaneamente lo stesso medium pittorico, continuando a incanalarlo poi attraverso altre forme artistiche, tecniche artigianali e collaborazioni." - Giò Marconi

"Innovation", Museum Brandhorst, Muenchen, 2017

MUSEUM BRANDHORST, Catalog of the exhibition "Innovation", Museum Brandhorst, Muenchen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Koenig, Koeln, 2017, pag. 412

Sitography: GIÒ MARCONI, "Kerstin BRÄTSCH Die Sein: Para Psychics II", www.politicamentecorretto.com, 19/05/22
www.politicamentecorretto.com/2022/05/19/kerstin-bratsch-die-sein-para-psychics-ii/

LUDWIG FORUM AACHEN, "Kerstin Brätsch: Die Sein—Para Psychics", www.e-flux.com, 2022
www.e-flux.com/announcements/478678/kerstin-brtschdie-sein-para-psychics/

MUSEUM BRANDHORST, "Kerstin Brätsch. Innovation", www.museum-brandhorst.de, 22/05/17
www.museum-brandhorst.de/en/press/kerstin-bratsch-innovation/#