Is this a room you can actually set foot into? Are these real, extant places or constructed spaces born of the imagination? Judith Lindner, who paints these images, in part returns the question to the viewer. It is up to him or her to decide what is reality and what is fiction. Strictly speaking, it is useless to try to concretely distinguish between the two: the painter bases her work on actual urban or rural topographies that fascinate her. She transports these motifs in a photo or sketch back to her atelier, where on the canvas she then imbues them with completely different realities