2023, Installation of shelf and unread books, 3 x 3 m
In case it rained during the summer, the artist had already built up a small stock of books in her childhood. Even then, she was prepared for one of those fictitious cases that never materialised. Reading a book can open up a new world, or in other words, the world can be seen with different eyes afterwards. In her bookshelf “Für den Fall, dass man mal…” [Just in case…] however, the artist shows the books she has not yet read, but which she thinks she will or should read in the future. The bookshelf is therefore a symbolic representation of the various life plans that dwell in the conditional future: Life scenarios that could have been or should have been. At the same time, the bookshelf of unread books negotiates the unrealised dreams and desires of the artist, but also social constraints and expectations that she believes she must meet in her various roles as an artist, as a woman, as a young mother. The unread books therefore open up a field of tension between the artist’s own and society’s, which are marked here, for the time being, as a defiant blank space.
2023, Installation of shelf and unread books, 3 x 3 m
In case it rained during the summer, the artist had already built up a small stock of books in her childhood. Even then, she was prepared for one of those fictitious cases that never materialised. Reading a book can open up a new world, or in other words, the world can be seen with different eyes afterwards. In her bookshelf “Für den Fall, dass man mal…” [Just in case…] however, the artist shows the books she has not yet read, but which she thinks she will or should read in the future. The bookshelf is therefore a symbolic representation of the various life plans that dwell in the conditional future: Life scenarios that could have been or should have been. At the same time, the bookshelf of unread books negotiates the unrealised dreams and desires of the artist, but also social constraints and expectations that she believes she must meet in her various roles as an artist, as a woman, as a young mother. The unread books therefore open up a field of tension between the artist’s own and society’s, which are marked here, for the time being, as a defiant blank space.