Category: experimental

“Because one thing is stronger than us, and that is the eternal progression of time, which never stops and inevitably leads to death.”

Christian Boltanski

Four faceless dancers perform a ghostly, seemingly endlessly repeating dance. As in a baroque painting, beauty and death (= the brother of sleep) are juxtaposed here in an aestheticizing manner in one composition – a memento mori – underpinned by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Kreuzstabkantate “Komm o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder” (Come, O death, thou brother of sleep). The butterfly as a baroque metaphor combines both in an impressive way: Beauty, transience, death and resurrection.

The basis of this work are 12 photographs in long exposure. Their constructed sequence in rapid succession creates an artificial choreography that becomes increasingly distorted.

Reflecting on the myth of “motherhood”.

What does it mean to be a “good” mother?

Who defines the standard?

For centuries, the image of the mother has been shaped in every culture by religiously motivated ideals, of which Mary is the Western role model. She embodies male power fantasies of chastity, submissiveness, selflessness and unconditional loyalty – qualities that still shape the image of women in almost every patriarchal society today.

This image is fragile and increasingly beginning to dissolve. Women want to be self-determined.
But what does it mean to be a “good” mother?
Reflecting on the myth of “motherhood”…

I try on different identities like I try on clothes. They are people I knew and whose story I continue as a “descendant”. Who am I and what have they made of me? Does a part of them live on in me? For the moment of this installation, they come alive again through me.