The Banality of Violence – I no longer know, How it feels exactly, It seems to have been lost. When we talk about freedom, prosperity, and weapons in the same breath. When students are chased out of university buildings with pepper spray, people who fight for a world without racism and war are crushed by imaginary restrictions. To a supposedly illegal gathering of humans. All I see, Is war, Myself, I am rage
Die Banalität
der Gewalt
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2024, DDW (Lemgo)
A Focused Observation of Time – An autobiographical work made of optimized wood, endlessness, and sound. A sea recorded on tape continuously moves in circles, mixing with the noise of the tape player. Behind it, a tower of Optimum is built. A pile of society searching for ever more efficient ways to distort its existence. There are ways out of a sick society. There are eternities between us.
Eine konzentrierte
Beobachtung der Zeit
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MAY
2023, DDW (Detmold)
Installation / Audio
Wood briquettes / Tape recorder / Reel / Text
You Me Interspace – Spaces arise in the silence between us. There, existences circle quietly. Like planets around suns. Like humans around themselves.
Du Ich
Zwischen-
raum
Du Ich
Zwischenraum
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OCTOBER
2023, DDW (Lemgo)
Tape recorders, reels, text, photography
The Water I’ve Given Is Your Water to Give – The installation, which was conceived in the winter of 2020, reflects on equality and privilege based on global water distribution. It addresses questions of morality alongside good intentions and approaches to achieving fair water economics.
The Water I've Given Is Your Water to Give
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The Fiction of the World— In Changing Realities – Who is the “I” in digital space? How do we shape our “self”? When does the fiction of ones and zeros dissolve into meaningless nothingness? This exhibition explored digital identity through various sculptures, installations, and artistic positions. At the same time, it introduced dissonances that cannot be dismissed by any of the considerations presented. Is there good in the seemingly bad?
Die Fiktion der Welt im Wandel der Realitäten
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August
2020 Lemgo
Performance / Sculpture / Installations
I Was Speechless, That’s Why I Have to Speak / 8:46 – After George Floyd was murdered by American police officers in May 2020, the idea emerged for a social sculpture that would archive the public outcry for justice and for the sustained fight against overt and structural racism. The fast pace and fleeting reactions on “social” networks were thus to be transformed into a lasting, audible substance. To this end, over 200 voices were collected, forming the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in a crescendo lasting 8:46 minutes.
In conjunction with a sculpture and the audio material, an installation was created that could be experienced in public for several days. Here i would like to mention authors who are doing important work to overcome such structures.
Exit Racism – Tupoka Ogette / Germany Black and White – Noah Sow / Language and Being – Kübra Gümüsay
I Was Speechless, That's Why I Have to Speak / 8:46
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June
2020 Lemgo
Installation
Blue Thoughts – Processing impulses, experiences, and current events through images and sound. In mutual resonance avec Ylva Sommer.
Identity; Dynamics; Impulses +++ As a synthesis of the research project “Effects on the Integrity of Modern Artists through the Use of Their Art in Companies,” a series of works was created, bundling insights and positions. The aesthetic exterior of the sculptures was subordinated to the intellectual substance on which the works are based. It was crucial that the understanding of the works and the approaches represented should by no means be a collective one.
