The subjects of the work groups REMEMBER I + II were finds from my grandparents' estate. I photographed these objects and continued to work with them by applying layers or exposing areas. In my imagination, this process resembles the process of remembering.
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REMEMBER I, 2007-09
Approximately 20 photo works
The motifs of the pictures originally showed clothes, fabrics, domestic inventory. Through my various working steps they were abstracted, further levels of meaning developed. For example, not a real cloth was ironed, but its photographic image.
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SLEEPING ROOM, 2009
Ironed photos, nightdress, pigments, lacquer, 150 x 225 cm
REMEMEBER AGNES' CLOTH IV, 2008
Photos, ironed, skinned, dyed, foil, on wood, framed with acrylic glass, 150 x 225 cm
REMEMBER AGNES' CLOTH I, 2008
Photos, ironed, skinned, on wood, framed with remains of the original cloth, 150 x 225 cm, private collection
REMEMBER AGNES' CLOTH III, 2008
Photos, ironed, skinned, on wood, framed with acrylic glass, 150 x 225 cm
AS THINGS STAND, 2010
Exhibition view gallery Schwefel Stuttgart
FAMILY AFFAIRS, 2014
Exhibition view gallery bildkultur Stuttgart
FOX, 2008
Scratched photos, ink, on wood, 50 x 280 cm, exhibition view AS THINGS STAND, 2010, gallery Schwefel Stuttgart
ARMCHAIR, 2008
Ironed and scratched photos, ink, on wood, ca. 220 x 220 cm
Presentation gallery Kränzl, ART Karlsruhe, 2008
THE FEAST, 2008
Photos, ironed, skinned, scratched, ink, 250 x 375 cm, exhibition view 48H-NEUKOELLN, 2016, Kindl-Brauerei Berlin
REMEMBER II, 2008-09
Approximately 25 photo works
The documentary war photographs are from my grandfather's estate. The pictures were photographed again and again during the working process, reworked and darkened. They remain – like memories or dreams and premonitions – vague even when they are focused.
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SKELETON, 2008
Photos, ironed, scratched, ink, 200 x 300 cm, exhibition view 50. PROJEKT, 2019, projektraumbahnhof25, Kleve, DE
SKELETON, 2008
Detail
CARCASS, 2008
Ironed and scratched photographs, black ink, foil, 200 x 300 cm
CAMP, 2008
Ironed and skinned photographs, foil, on wood, 200 x 300 cm
UNTITLED (SOLDIERS), 2009
Photos, ironed, skinned, pasted, ink, 150 x 210 cm
MARCH, 2009
Cut and scratched photos, 150 x 210 cm
ROUND DANCE, 2009
Ironed photos, tape, ink, 200 x 420 cm
COULD BE, 2009
Photos, ironed, ink, 150 x 225 cm
COULD BE, 2009
Detail
SEQUENCE, 2009
Photos, studio view
TREMBLE, 2009
Superimposed black and white copy, 30 x 20 cm