Judith Mall - Artist 

Seen individually, each picture seems to be a random instant in an endless series of moments. Seen together however, they narrate a place and an event. The assembly of images fills each single picture with poetry and challenges the viewer to become narrator and detective, to review and modify the order of the drawings, to keep reassessing and questioning the single pictures.
The fact that Judith Mall exclusively allows the colors black and white (the black of the charcoal and the white of the paper) in her works is a limitation that fits wonderfully into her work. Drawings often dominated by dark grey and deep black with only few pure white patches set the tone of her narrations and remind the viewer of film noir storyboards – except that Mall's work in fact does not lay out any evidence that simply wants to be recounted.
Quite to the contrary, it seems as though the images do not want to retain their meaning at all. It trickles down from them just like the black dust that keeps falling on the floor of Judith Mall's studio with each stroke of the charcoal pencil.

Benjamin Maack