Langer Atem – 2004/2010
I have forgotten her name since. When I met her, she just had undergone a surgery and was counseled to go often walking and take long and deep breaths. So she did.
MISS APEX – 2009
I found MISS APEX behind the club house of the Live Guard Club in Sorrento, Western Australia. I had the opportunity a few years later to print it for the Edition Fästing Plockare on real black and white paper.
Euphoric Climate – 2006 until 2010
At times of continious warnings that we will have to cut back (our lifestyle) since we soon will run out of resources I was looking around for systems or structures providing cover. The variety of the scenery also reflects the changing strategy to get cover. Sometimes only a quick fix is presented, but mostly the desire for a more elaborated solution is present. I started this project with the idea in mind, it should reflect my own personal solutions, but it soon proved, that I had to rely on bigger concepts that only a bigger entity can provide.
«Abgeschwächter Einbezug des Vorgefallenen» – Installation Theater Roxy, Birsfelden, 22.01.2009 - 8.03.2009
The images are cutouts of photographs that were printed on billboardpaper and then pasted onto the wall. This temporary installation was commisioned by Theatre Roxy for their lobby.
«Lost In Transfiguration» – 2008
The hallways of the famous spring «Tettuccio» in Montecatini are unreal in their neo-classic appearence. One hast to imagine another time and other persons using the today site. The monumental appearence is contrasted by the unreal, bright lighting I found on the day I visited the place.
«Brückenorakel» – permanent installation; lokal.int, Biel, since 20.03.2008
«The (...) will soon come». The definite article «Der» is followed by a blank space that does not give a palpable meaning, since the rest of the sentence just says: will arrive soon. Looking at the location – it is well seen from the road and the passing railwayline – the possible advent of a train could be guessed, since it can well read as the «Der Zug wird bald kommen». The times are gone where a stopping train would stir up village life and everyone curious enough would be at the station to get the news coming in from the outside. The frequent bypasser as well as the roaming outsider will invent their own stories around the gap. The letters are cut out of thin aluminium and hung onto thin wiring between two masts formerly used for the trolley-bus wires.
«So Far I've Said» – 2006
At the time I started this work I just had finished reading Gaston Bachelard's 'Poetics Of Space'. The indiscoverable space is cell and world(space) ad infinitum. It is heavy and weightless at the time - moving us into the spheres of daydreaming.
«Paradise Just Gets Better» – 2006
The neutral roaming gaze bounces off the facades with its blind windows and underlines the view point of the outsider - or vice versa, the imprisoned one. We may consider ambivalently if the walls were erected for nothing to escape or if everything shall be kept outside. Following the American poet Michael Palmer the notion of space begins when we look out from where are. The photographs advance on those spaces creating a sphere of their own.
«In Wintertimes Living Is Easy» – 2005
Spending two months in the finnish winter I was impressed about the physical and visual appearence of snow. I got to hear many times that the Finns actually love snow. Asking why some told me the reflcetive white brightens up the darker winter season and makes daily live possible to cope with. I discovered that the snow hides away lots of things and renders the landscape cleanded up for the onlooker. Every designer dreams Despite the freezing temperatures in the finnish winter I gained the impression that signs of human warmth are there and well taken care of.
«One Million Dollars View Up Here» – 2003
The title of the work derives from a sale's billboard. The dream of a free live is levelled to an iconography of conformism and wealth. The imagery reminds of a Theodor W.Adorno quote, saying that in utopias which came true, one has the feeling that the best part of the dream has been forgotten, and therfore we can't fully enjoy those utopias. One can not evade the impression that the Australian Dream has turned sour. I returned to Western Australia two years later and the photographs of that visit one can see in the work 'Paradise Just Gets Better'.
«Marshoutka – The Tbilisi Journey» – 2002/2010
In the late summer of 2001 I arrived in Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia. Strolling everyday through the streets of Tbilisi I got familiar with the many minibuses called 'marshutka', because you encounter them everywhere. They force you to pay attention to them, otherwise personal injuries are a consequence. But in looking at these rolling monsters I discovered the faces of passengers at the same eye level as myself. In 2010 I decided to include the greater part of images I took during this stay into this work and renamed it to the present title.
Please check back later – I will be filling in more pictures in the weeks to come. Last updated: 21.06.2010