loculos Timoris

Loculos Timoris (omy), 2024
110 x 200 cm
Oil stick, graphite, charcoal and oil on canvas


LOCULOS TIMORIS


In Loculos Timoris - Latin for "pockets of fear" - Texas-born, Germany-based artist Kathryn Gohmert explores what it means to live courageously in a world increasingly governed by anxiety and division. Through this focused series of paintings, she investigates the mental landscapes we inhabit when navigating fear, and what it takes to carve out empathy, curiosity, and connection amid disorientation.

Drawing from research in cognitive science and her own experiences with temporary blindness, Gohmert offers a visual meditation on how fear warps perception - how the brain prioritizes threat, clings to division, and struggles to decipher what is truly real. Yet within this tension lies the exquisite potential to choose another way.

LOCULOS TIMORIS ran at Ro2 Art Dallas July 12 - August 30, 2025.


 





Symbols create their own code as they point out roots and causes, mimicking the brain's own process of sense-making on canvas.

These works hold space for both the vulnerability of sensing and the resilience of meaning-making. Diagrams of survival trace new neural pathways toward imagination and intentional connection in a culture that rewards suspicion.


 

Photo by Teresa Rafidi

 

Film 1 and 2, 2025
50 x 50 cm | 20 x 20 cm
oil stick, graphite, oil and sewn textile on canvas

 

Film 3 and 4, 2025
50 x 50 cm | 20 x 20 cm
oil stick, graphite, oil and sewn textile on canvas

 
 

Film 5 and 6, 2025
50 x 50 cm | 20 x 20 cm
oil stick, graphite, oil and sewn textile on canvas

 

Photo by Teresa Rafidi

Film 7 and 8, 2025
50 x 50 cm | 20 x 20 cm
oil stick, graphite, oil and sewn textile on canvas



Gohmert's paintings function as studies of the stimuli by which we experience the world, stripping complex neurological processes to their essential components.




 

Photo by Teresa Rafidi

 

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 1), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 2), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

 
 

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 4), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 5), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 6), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

Loculos Timoris (Untitled 13), 2025
14.8 x 21 cm | 5.8 x 8.26 in
Pen and ink on paper

 

Photo by Teresa Rafidi


 

(Dark) Lightness (2025)
Animation
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Kathryn Gohmert’s work focuses on initiating and marking moments of connection and interaction with the outside world.

Of particular interest are interactions related to the brain. Painted experiences are chartered with symbols and words, celebrating form for its own sake rather than literal meaning.

After being affected by temporary blindness, memory and mapping the brain’s processes have become increasingly important for the artist. Her work therefore seeks to highlight the power the mind plays in forming reality.

Her installations, sound instruments and objects draw individuals into intentional focus in the present. her objects often lead viewers to a moment of connection, with many of her works incomplete until activated by a participant.


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Kathryn Gohmerts jüngeres Werk konzentriert sich auf den Augenblick der Initiierung von Kontakt und die Schnittstellen eben dieser Interaktion mit der äußeren Welt.  

Die Interaktionen beziehen sich in ihren Gemälden auf das Gehirn. Die mit Symbolen und Begriffen inszenierte Erfahrung zelebriert dabei eher Form um ihrer selbst willen als wörtliche Bedeutung.

Angeregt von der Erfahrung temporärer Blindheit wurden Erinnerung und die Kartographierung von Steuerungsprozessen des Gehirns zunehmend zum künstlerischen Schwerpunkt.  Ihr Werk versucht dabei die Rolle und den Kraftakt des Geistes bei der Erfindung von Realität hervorzuheben.

Ihre Installationen, Klanginstrumente und -objekte nutzen den Übergang von öffentlichem und privaten Raum, um den einzelnen gewollt auf das Gegenwärtige zu fokussieren. So verführen ihre Objekte die Betrachter immer wieder zu Momenten der Verbindung und des interaktiven Kontakts, indem ihre Werke solange unvollständig bleiben bis sie vom Betrachter aktiviert werden.   


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