Inkjet prints on paper, 2002/03, fourteen pieces
In 2002 I have been granted a half year scholarship in a studio in Berlin. During this time I created a series o fourteen pieces. I was working on the base of a photographic picture to continue and change artistically the surface, the artificiality and limitedness of the reflected nature. These photographs have been taken in and around Berlin. They show an apparent ideal nature or a nature brought into a tamed state.
With the technique of scratching I opened, interpreted and commented the photographs. Even when the nature looks completely chaotic there is a mathematical plan behind it. With my drawings I was more interested to create new spaces between reality and artificiality. The framework and grid laid onto the photographs may create irritation. This crystalline net may seem like a displaced architecture getting into competition with the nature, an announcement of urbanity. As an optical impression (scaffolding, barrier and sidewalk paving stones) it traverses the picture of this city in radical change.
On the other hand these grids have also a threatening effect. They enclose and exclude and give an idea of the wall between east and west, which is noticeable as a shadow. But finally they help to bring nature into a new form, create new spaces - an ideal nature.