Statement

I conceive the photographic as performative approaching and thus not solely restricted to the outcome of a material image. Diving into social structures and spaces, into private life and relations is for me the starting point for re/producing communication with the means of analogue colour photography. Along with this goes no longer the question “What do I disclose?” but “How do I make use of and show photography”? Touching, confronting, dealing with, sensing, longing for, and repeating are ways of agency for me to not only producing but imagining photographic images. Acting on and with bodies happens through the photographic apparatus with others, sharing and handing it over,¬ as well as by oneself in the darkroom. For I do not understand the photographic images as a singular expression of meaning, but as something which expresses its potential for communication through its material, the traces of its coming-into-being which enters into relations with other images. My installations thus aim at intensifying these communicative traits and at opening them up towards the beholders in a physical manner in which gazes demand movements. It is the belief in the impossibility of photography to create and show something definitive which forms the basis of my artistic agency and is thought of as a potentiality. Every act thus follows the intention of a coming-closer, of an interacting with the means of analogue photography both in the photographic act as well as in the presentation of images.