Light as shades of light or perception of moment in light or in shades of light form immediate reference nodes in questions to a fulfillment of ‘carpe diem’ …
objects | depictions
Die Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben. Completion of a Submission Form
Answers to the application form for the Scholarship for Doing Nothing tendered in the context of the HFBK research project and forming a module of its exhibition Die Schule der Folgenlosigkeit. Übungen für ein anderes Leben at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg
beige chairs
The photo series is a kind of re-enactment of the experiental film white chairs, originally created in 2003, and it is linked to Alexandra Reill’s then applied symbol of the movements of work chairs fabricated in plastic and white, then reflecting movement in time as much as self-reflection; probably reigned by an approach to perfectionism. Looked at it now, however, in 2021, the plastic chairs used in offices and other work contexts depicted by the artist are only partially white. They are beige now – that helps with hygiene, and traces of movement are no longer so difficult to follow. Plastic chairs made in beige no longer leave traces so easily; and when they appear as a pile, there is nothing in the end that reminds us of any possible movement …
C-19-Object Series, 5-pcs.
Installation, consisting of four knitted objects, created in the C-19 lockdowns between 11/2020 and 05/2021, and a carpet. Alexandra Reill: “… as if spit onto my mother’s Persian rug, old and badly damaged” [*]
Structure of a winter blanket
Two photo series on occupations and sensitivities in the C-19 lockdown winter 2020 / 2021
Access to a pharmacy
Photo series of semi-close ups of the walls and the embedded infrastructure from the building site of a pharmacy, in Covid-19-lockdown times reigned by investments in the own renovation and at the same time giving customers full access to the pharmacy through the back entrance
SP19-22-creeping slip into despair
Series of four photographic self-portraits and six digital image edits, respectively, taken in the months 11/2020 and 03/2021, in the course of the ongoing lockdowns caused by Covid-19; resumed in 2022 – one year later …
protocol of a progressing – stopped – progressing – stopped – on an interim basis ongoing – and finally completed construction
Photo series following the advancing – stopped – advancing – stopped – – on an interim basis ongoing – and finally completed progress of the renovation and [re-]building of a physical structure. 2019-2021