Minor Shifts, 2026
Photo prints on mesh, wood, strings
250 x 250 x 400 cm
1. openart Lausitz Biennale / Atelierhof Werenzhain
Long strips hang from the foliage of the old oak tree in front of the Atelierhof Werenzhain, meandering through the air like underwater plants or the tentacles of a jellyfish in the current... Starting point of the installation is images found on social media of superyachts set against spectacular landscapes, which galmorise an extremely luxurious, resource-intensive lifestyle. The shift in composition created by cropping the yachts out of the image strips brings the symbolically liberated landscape backdrops to the fore, where they form an organic pictorial sculptur, which blends hamonioulsy with the elemts of its surroundings. Like the outstreched arms of Utopia, the ribbons reach out in the wind towards the greenery of the three and deliver a clear rejection of their usurpers' dreams of creating private empires that deliberately destroy our democracies.