feuchte gehsteige

2018

The collages were created during a course, whereby the material output was not defined. In the beginning, subjectively aesthetic color fields were cut out of magazines. The forms of the color fields are negative forms from the attached photographs of the magazine pages. Arranging the high-contrast colors resulted in these minimalistic compositions. It was initially intended to develop textile patterns from it. (You were right in your assumption).

But the coloring quickly made me associate it with water, urine and asphalt. Because I like to observe situations in artistic processes, before and after, I developed the text that describes thoughts, observations and urban compositions. The textual work is not only a concept or a description of the graphic compositions, but belongs to the collages as an artistic expression.

In these collages, I tried to work through the experimental examination of the use of public spaces and architecture.

An experimental series of minimalistic collages about the relationship between humans and architecture in the context of bodily fluids.

Loeschung

2018

Photographs in digital format, if not archived and sorted, have an expiry date. The abstract process of visually capturing and archiving memories is currently an essential point in our image-oriented society that influences the handling of memories. A photograph as an archived memory of a person, situation or place. Photos that are neither published nor archived are lost - the memories are erased.

In an image-creating age, in which thousands of photos are published every day and even more are produced, I wanted to deal with a photograph in this work that was already taken and would probably have been lost without intervention. The image is from an analog camera that I acquired through estate hopping. Photographs produced of people who have already died can not only be morbid, but also give me a very intimate insight into a life that has already died out. Photographs continue to have an effect after the death of the deceased and leave behind an intangible trace that will soon fade without intervention.

Similar to illustrations, substances can preserve this trace for a short time. A perfume on a scarf, the feel of a pullover, a cap still hanging on a coat hook. The impressions and memories fade, what remains are photographs that can no longer reveal any sensual experiences.

The selected photo eludes this dissolving and, through the blurred motif itself, becomes the representative object of a fading, repetitive process and is preserved through the lamination of external influences.

Pflanzensupermarkt

2018

The botanical garden as a consumer good. As an institution in a city, it suggests to the population that it is a natural oasis of relaxation with an autodidactic character. By delimiting its outer zones as well as strictly subdividing its interior, the botanical garden functions much more like a well-designed and structured place. By buying an admission ticket and thus simultaneously excluding a wide variety of social groups, the botanical garden is an elite zone whose content and inner workings are strictly curated. Similar to a supermarket, the "products", in this case flawless and highly cultivated plant beds, are presented to the guest during these opening hours.

In a consumer-driven society, I want to fulfill this desire. As artificial as the botanical garden is in the real sense, it presents itself to the public as natural. I want to frame this artificial naturalness with my work. To do this, I collected a wide variety of plant parts on my way through the garden. The vacuuming of the plant parts, in a special ratio of water and air, these leaves are almost withdrawn from their natural cycle of the seasons and thus become a souvenir that can be bought/taken away.

The following pictures are a capture of the setting during presentation. Photocredits by Christiane Reiter-Zaman.

o.T.

2019

From head tingling to brain orgasm, ASMR is a media phenomenon that has recently been spreading like wildfire across the internet. With around three million videos in which people knock on metal cans or comb their hair, there is a competition for relaxation. A competition that follows this work and experimentally analyzes the auditory differences of certain paper qualities.

A breakdown and banalization of the former carrier of world information to its never intentional purpose. The closing of conventional reception channels and the parallel relocation of paper in the digital age.