Traces of Africa in the Mecklenburg Landscape (excerpt)
Beate Remest (Gallery Curator)

Traces of Africa in the Mecklenburg Landscape – the title of this exhibition – an exciting story, a hint of exotic anticipation.
The artist Karin Camara is home again.  Africa was yesterday, will not be forgotten and has left emphatic traces upon her life.  Her delight in novelty remains uninterrupted.  Her wish to record the essential has grown stronger.
With a parsimonious use of lines, she has captured the landscapes of her surroundings.  The ink and pastel works “Yellow Spring” and “Spring in Lapitz” are not geared towards quaint, pictorial effects, but rather towards the feeling emerging from these landscapes when one engages in an intensive contemplation of them.
It is not only the eye that must be trained.  A sense of the atmosphere of the landscape must also be there.  Karin Camara not only lives in Mecklenburg , she also acquires the stimulation for her work from the region.
Originating in an initial contact to African impressions, these artistic statements are extremely interesting and enrich the Mecklenburg artistic landscape even more than a couple of new landscape pictures might have.