Vaterland IX 2007. Coloured quartz sand, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt. CARMEN GHEORGHE was born in 1976 in Bucharest, Romania. She lives and works in Frankfurt. Solo exhibitions include Fiat Panda, Ritter & Staiff, Frankfurt (2007); Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (2007); Progressive Veränderung der psychosexuellen Selbstbiografie, The Hell, Frankfurt (2006); Öliger Belag dank hartnäckiger Absichten, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin (2006). Group exhibitions include Aspen 11 (part 1), Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt (2006); Rundgang in der Städelschule, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule,Frankfurt (2005-2006).She studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main and currently studies at the Staatliche Hochschule für Blidende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt. Carmen Gheorghe works with sculpture, performance and installation, referencing modernist painting and its relationship to sculpture. Vaterland IX is a floor-based work made from patterns of coloured quartz sand that reaffirms the artist’s interest in movement and dispersion. The composition brings together a series of motifs borrowed from works by Frank Stella and Ellsworth Kelly as well as Michel Majerus. The title Vaterland (fatherland)relates to the use of sand and quartz as natural substances that refer to an origin and in a paternal sense, it also references German history. In Vaterland IX, Gheorghe invites her audience to participate in the entropic scattering of her work by walking on it.