In your previous series “Dahinter” and “Sommer” you show city motifs. How is your “missiles” series related to them? Even if the works seem different at first glance, there is a deep anchoring of the threat - but from two different perspectives. While in „missiles“ I see something threatening without feeling threatened, in the city motifs it‘s completely the other way round: I don‘t see anything dangerous, but still feel uncomfortable. Formally, too, there is a connection: both the rockets and several motifs from „Behind“ often appear very frontal/planar, i.e. very strictly fitted into the picture in a straight line. Almost as if they were film backdrops in a studio. In addition, I wanted to show a kind of frozen, timeless moment, the hour zero of a calm post-apocalypse. Perhaps an atomic bomb has just detonated or a plague has taken everyone away - and yet the sun shines peacefully and warmly.
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In September 2018 you opened your first solo exhibition „BEYOND VISUAL RANGE” in Berlin. Tell me about the feedback. I was very surprised about the many visitors and the great exchange. At the beginning I was afraid that my work might be misinterpreted. But the opposite was the case. The effect and the critical statement were almost automatic. This was reinforced by an award from the BLOOOM Award by WARSTEINER-Competition, where I won one of the two prizes for the black torpedo ANAHIT. The work was exhibited at Art Düsseldorf for several days during the award ceremony and the feedback was fantastic and very encouraging. I am enormously happy and grateful for this experience.
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