Ten years after her first Nieves Zine 1&1 Andrea Heller returns with In Your House. It features a selection of watercolors, dealing with body as habitation or habitation as body respectively. The body serves as a vessel for fantasies and fictions, desires and obsessions.

Andrea Heller herself describes her artistic technique as a “luring” process: her aim is to capture her audience’s attention with pleasant shapes, materials and colour, in order to contrast this cheerful aura with black colouring and the dark materials of horror, of gloom and of the abyss in a stimulating way. Just as she says, her artwork leads to the abyss, to things that are hidden. One might suggest that the artist is wrong here, however – given the fickle attention of the audience, quite the reverse is true. The eye is drawn by gloom, by black. It is only at a second glance that the viewer is charmed by the addition of little bits of colour, which make the abyss bearable. Gloom transforms into a pleasant prospect. With Andrea Heller, darkness is always attractive, and her artist’s hand turns unknown terrors into familiar shivers.