Allison Katz’s dense and richly referential practice combines diverse styles and ­subjects to create an energetic dialogue across media, from paintings and posters to ­publications and curatorial interventions – a relational web that grows and deepens with every new work and context. The consistent thread running through Katz’s oeuvre is an ­interest in how images are created and experienced: how they absorb and exude ­meaning, how they circulate, and what lies hidden beneath and beyond their surfaces, waiting to be activated. For TEXTE ZUR KUNST, Katz has produced “Blondie (handheld version),” a ­two-part edition based on her painting of the same name (2013/2021). The original work is likewise composed of two parts: The monkey frame was created as an independent piece in 2013, with the artist later adding a painting of a flaming heart, borrowed from Philippe de Champaigne’s 1650 portrait of Saint Augustine. The heart motif is both autographic and metaphorical, an organ and an emoji in the quest for truth, its yellow flames ­referring to Katz’s blondness and to Gustave Courbet’s depiction of hair, which he used as a tactile stand-in for the act of painting. And while the relation of this motif to the ­monkeys ­surrounding it is left to the viewer’s imagination, the stylistic clash between the edition’s border and its central motif speaks to Katz’s interest in the frame as a device that ­structures experience – both practically and metaphorically. Having previously appeared in prominent museum ­exhibitions and as a fold-out poster in the catalogue for Katz’s 2022 exhibition “Artery” at the Camden Art Centre in London, “Blondie” now emerges uniquely reimagined as an edition with its frame in a new color combination.