HANGING ON THE PAST
2022
Installation consisting acrylic, 5 blankets, metal chains, slide projector, slides, night cabinet, 2 books (Eva Illouz: Warum die Liebe weh tut; J. W. von Goethe: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers)
size variable
The slides show 40 video stills of films and series I
grew up with that are about the one, great love. For
example: She‘s All That 1999, Never Been Kissed 1999,
You‘ve Got Mail 1998, Scrubs 2001-2010, Sleeping
Beauty 1959, Sex and the City 1998-2004, My Girl
1991, Love Actually 2003, How I Met Your Mother 2005-
2014, Grey‘s Anatomy since 2005, 10 Things I Hate
About You 1999.
Exhibition view at “To be on the cards” at MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, 2022
What happens after the happy ending?
2022
acrylic on blanket
190 x 120 cm
There‘s no shame in letting go (Feels the same to hold on)
2022
acrylic on pillow
50 x 50 cm