Solo show at Staatsgalerie Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin | March 7 – April 4, 2013
Press release (Deutsch)

The exhibition shows a selection of works based on image material from old photo novels dating from the 60s – 80s which I found on southeuropean flea markets. They always tell the same story involving stereotypical concepts of ‚love’, ‚passion’ and ‚power’. What they finally show is a world full of narcissists, permanently boycotting themselves and acting against each other instead of trying to get together. I pointed at that by exaggerating their all-embracing separation: The process of work included scanning, reproducing and painting over the original material with black permanent marker. By erasing wide parts of the images I isolated the protagonists turning them into ‚autonomous individuals‘  in the truest and loneliest sense of the word. What once was a linear narration falls apart into scattered fragments, mimic and actions of the protagonists have lost former sense and counterparts – they open up for a reinterpretation as ‚inner storyboards‘, becoming an almost surreal kaleidoscope of psycho-social gestures.
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