Every individual perceives the world differently and is living in his “own” 

world. Photographs of a young girl and of her old great-grandmother 
are shown in conjunction. One inhabiting the world of a child’s imagination, 

the other absorbed by her own world of memories, which separates her 

from the presence. In my work I alternate between documenting and 

staging situations.

 I produced a series of photographs of abandoned industrial interiors. 

These images were packed with forlorn debris left by the bankrupt inhabitants. 

My interest in the discarded object developed further into a series of photographs 

of objects collected by my grandmother. I am interested in the question of how 

individuals behave and are influenced by the society that surrounds us. 

Never throwing anything away my grandmother consequently accumulated a 

vast collection on display in her cellar. While photographing her museum, I drew 

my own imagination of her life to the surface by playing light over these items 

and imagined my grandmother’s life before I was born. Moreover, they developed 

a double meaning: having surrounded me throughout my life, these objects also 

turned into memories of my own childhood.

 Like industrial companies the church is also in a situation of change. 

My recent work explores the transition between still and moving images and 

is structured into three parts. In these „moving, inflatable and flying church“ 

– videos I reflect on how man copes with modernity. Longer time periods are 

compressed to last merely a minute. The sequences loop in continual repetition 

resulting in a state of timelessness. For example a 750 year-old church is being 

transported as a complete building from one side of a river to the other. 

The land on which the village had stood is wiped away by the mining industry. 

The relocation of the church enables it to survive whilst the rest of the village 

no longer exists. The achievements of modern technology make the transition 

of the old church physically possible. The past and the future collide but also

interact in a surreal way.