Photo series, Prints, (Video-) Installations (WIP, since 2024)
Our Past is a Foreign Country, We do things differently here. (Site-specific Performance in Bavaria, 35mm Photograph)
In 2020, following years of travel, I returned to my Bavarian hometown due to the Covid-19 lockdown. In my family home, I came across a box of personal artifacts: my grandmother’s poetry album from 1934, my grandfather’s wartime photo album, his police training documents, as well as old Bavarian police caps and boots. This discovery deeply moved me - and awakened the desire to artistically explore it and find an identity amidst it - challenging patriarchal representation and explore the afterlives of Fascism in a society.
With entering art school in 2024, my artistic engagement with this archive began. My twin sister, Stephanie, frequently appears in front of the camera, performing acts of appropriation of the archival material. This displacement allows for both proximity and distance, framing identity as something relational, performative, and unresolved. I lean on Judith Butler’s idea of identity as a performative role.
In the last two years, I created prints, photo series, sculptures and installations, mostly created while reading intensively beforehand, which you can find throughout different projects on my website. It's still a WIP and I'm currently developing new photo series and artworks.
Exhibition view @ Ars Electronica Linz, 2024
