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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

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 …

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

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 …

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