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In her illustrations, watercolours and drawings, Tina Berning unveils the secret of femininity, physical imperfection and the specific aesthetics arising from both. The artist, born 1969 in Braunschweig, creates delicate, liquescent, always fragmentary figures that seem to float above things while staying vulnerable. Taking female models from lifestyle magazines and reinterpreting them on antiquarian paper, marked by the signs of time, she undermines every stereotyped image of women. Instead, out of the cliché arise fragile portraits full of profound narratives about the human face and its perception