M. touching me without asking for permission
CTRL+O [2018]
What happens when young men who are not used to being photographed are at the mercy of the camera? How does the photographer have to act in order that they open up? Does the control over the events stay exclusively in her hands? Which dynamics develop?
The focus is on subject-object-relationships: confrontation and trust, the desire for power and the inevitable loss of control.
photography is (painful)
a deal:
you give a piece of yourself
before asking for a glimpse
of what’s lying beneath someone else’s
naked skin
but
how much of yourself
can you give away
before there’s nothing left
to share?
or do you always
get something in return
so you never run the risk
of ending up empty?
and if this is the case:
how long do we keep being ourselves
when we keep trading in bits of us
for pieces of others?
now that i see you
i can’t see myself anymore
final exhibition in uni, 2018