As a photographer, as an artist, as a woman and mother, I act in this project not only behind the camera, but also in front of it. Under white cloth, I assume postures reminiscent of iconic representations from art history, reflecting the cycle of life and death - the position of the embryo, the outstretched body of a laid-out corpse.
The photographs of the body hidden under the cloth are reminiscent of shrouded sculptures - whereby my own invisibility serves as a foil in a second working step, on which I arrange symbols of decay into studies of transience. In this way, hybrid motifs emerge that only reveal their morbid details and mythological references upon closer inspection and once again refer to the artist's self-sacrifice.
My research on the themes of transience, farewell, death, transformation, and the perpetuation of past conditions led me to the workshop of a taxidermist, to a taxidermist, and to the apartment of a suicide. In addition, I use my camera to track down the forgotten, the decaying and the lost in urban spaces. In the process, a comprehensive catalog of my own vanitas motifs has emerged over the past twenty years.
