I AM ... (Series)
DESCRIPTION
25 collages.
Like letters of an alphabet.
Or like words.
Or sentences.
Or stories.
Or like fragments of the self.
Images of uprootedness.
Longing for wholeness and freedom.
Like memos.
Like greetings from exile.
The exile:
A refuge an option a necessity a mental projection screen a yearning a place of fragility uprootedness a hope.
In this series, I have mounted screenshots of 2 of my Doinas (dance-videos) on 25 of my photos. It is about a life in exile. To me, "exile" does not only mean a geographic distance from home. Also and foremost the word denotes to me an emotion, a condition of being separated (from ones roots, the family, life, the life purpose, the body...), and, always connected to that, a yearning for wholeness. In this sense, most people probably live a life in exile, at least temporarily. The inner trembling originating from this condition, the insecurities, the blurriness, , and the vagueness interest me.
AUTHOR
Trained as a professional dancer and choreographer, I became interested in working with dance/movement on video, after having choreographed the dance scenes in Roland Emmerich´s feature film "Anonymous".
Recently, I have extended my artistic practice to photography/digital collage.
In this life, either everything or nothing is meaningful. I believe one has to decide that in order to be able to live. I have chosen meaningfulness. To me, everything has meaning, everything is not only what it is but also has symbolic content, depth, a mystery, a truth.
I want to understand what it all means – life, being human, society, woman, man, love, cruelty, anger, hope … I would call every piece of work I’ve ever done minimalistic, even my whole way of being/living, in the sense that I always strive to get to the core of whatever I’m doing, diving as deep as I can, getting rid of all that I find unnecessary, simplifying as much as possible, using very simple (technical) means. What comes out of that process sometimes looks minimalistic, sometimes not. I don’t care about that. I care about the piece of work being as congruent as possible to the underlying „truth" that I found diving.
