Self-portraits, surrealism and the Stasi – just some of the influences which help make up the varied work of the German artist Cornelia Shleime. Having experienced the repressive regime of the former GDR at first hand, she is now revelling in the liberty to create whatever she likes, whenever she likes.
Does a difficult past fuel artistic inspiration?
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