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 1933, 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.
With entering art school in 2024, my photographic 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.
