Where are you ?

Schutz’s works address our contemporary experience of reality, increasingly shaped by technology and mediated communication. Her paintings depict solitary figures lingering in transitional or commercial spaces—outside supermarkets, airports, or manicured landscapes—absorbed in routine gestures: texting, talking on the phone, sipping coffee. These moments of passive consumption and silent transit unfold in environments designed for flow rather than presence, echoing the rhythms of consumption, travel, and productivity.

Despite physically present, the figures appear mentally absent—detached from their immediate surroundings, absorbed in their own digital or mental spheres. Shown in strict profile and with minimal detail, they are rendered deliberately anonymous, verging on the symbolic. 

This refusal of individualization shifts the focus away from identity and toward gesture, reducing the subjects to archetypes of modern life. They are non-people in non-places, dissolving into repetitive, placeless actions that feel both impersonal and uncannily familiar.

Schutz’s paintings reflect the paradox of hyper-connectivity of our contemporary life: a world where constant interaction often heightens isolation. The result is a quiet, ambient tension—an atmosphere that is both eerily impersonal and intimately recognisable, holding up a mirror to the in-between spaces we move through but rarely see.