Between Swimming and Dryland

The form of this work was originally based on the plans of the project space of its original exhibition. The "Bärenzwinger", literally meaning "bear enclosure", which housed between one to three bears until 2015. The small cramped compound was my starting point for this collapsible paper theatre, and became a stage for a dislocated human body that transformed and inflated to the maximum boundaries of the site. The encompassing moat become the arms, while the ears, hair and genitals wander the halls like ghosts.
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Curators Marie-Christin Lender and Christopher Weickenmeier write, " Worlding It Otherwise or Else explores how artistic work works. Beyond the material conditions of production, artists may invent their own set of conditions and relations through which their work is rendered working. And those circumstances are no less real, significant, or material for that matter.
Taking this supposed paradox as a starting point, the group exhibition assembles four artists that each in their own way define laws, narratives, and forces – effectively putting worlds into practice, making things visible that are there and that are not.
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Between Swimming and Dryland became the starting point for producing the solo exhibition, under the same title, at Kunstverein Reutlingen, which focused on the questions of bodily limitations, boundaries and violations.