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This process results in works such as the large painting One-Time Pad, which, like most of the works on exhibit, was finished this year. Forms that look like letters of the alphabet are arrayed close to one another: a gray-yellow bar, a gray "n"; at the upper edge, white spots float like clouds in front of a blue background. Anyone who is trying to find a meaning or even a history behind this should think about the title, One-Time Pad, which is also the name of the exhibition. One-time pad is a type of encryption employed predominantly in diplomatic and military circles. The code can only be used once; it is considered indecipherable. The same is true of Scheibitz' works. Although they conjure up memories of images and signs we all know, we cannot decipher them. It is like a déjà-vu experience, where we perceive something to be real for a moment but cannot pin it down as a real event. "Today people expect everything to be made plausible. They stand in front of art wearing headphones and want to hear an explanation. But that doesn't work with my art," says Scheibitz.
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