Doing the odness, undoing the strangeness
Serie von 5 C-Prints, 2021/2023
ENG
"Doing the oddness, undoing the strangeness" is dealing with the "Ruckeln, Schieben, Drücken und Schmiegen" of a body. A person or a critter who is moving the body against structures so as to act up within certain circumstances: an array of multiple dystopian demands that are imposed upon beings. By moving towards, within or against something an attempt to attain an ability to act within unwanted structures is made, to act keeping crucial problems in mind.
The series of photographs is trying to form a kind of "critical intimacy“ ("Critical intimacy“ see Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in an interview with Steve Paulson, LARB) with these challenges: by analyzing and deconstructing them through bodily movement. At the same time the work describes a starting point for being decidedly active.