In the kardia and origin series i work with real organs, which i dissect and photograph. I am fascinated by the structures, the tissue that belongs to something that first lives and works in the body, then also decays and changes its shape and color. I find the placenta as an organ particularly exciting because it is only created by the body in order to enable new life and it is repelled immediately after its purpose and left to decompose outside the body. An infinite cycle forms: grow, mutate, die, grow. Above all, I am interested in transitoriness and time (e.g. preservation and freezing). What is left of the vanitas still life of the Christian West? Which iconographic codes and symbols are still stuck in the collective memory? And what can a contemporary still life by a female artist look like, times in which women are supposedly on the verge of equality and patriarchy is crumbling?
The „Zeichnungen“ are created at the same time. I mainly work with photographs that I take in everyday life or when i´m traveling. The photographs serve as a template and are reassembled. I use rooms that always awaken associations or open up stories to create perspectives, but the rooms should be alienated so that a clear narration is prevented. I‘m interested in the staging of the enigmatic, the transience, which is also often visible in the architectural (between nature and culture).