2008, mixed media collage on magazines
Installed at the Museum fuer Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt
In this series I sabotaged the magazine interviews of famous artists by glueing examples of my own work over theirs, and by tipp-exing out their answers and writing in my own as if I were the artist being interviewed. This is a practise that I return to every now and then.
This is not the first time I reference muffin moulds. After eating a blueberry muffin a few years ago, I folded the paper form and put it on my table. It reminded me of the shell from Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’. I recently have become very fascinated in the power of feminine energy and the amazing power a woman has to push life from her vagina. I play with this idea of the muffin form representing a vagina in this work as well as the two Venus Man Trap sculptures
2013, Performance video 10min50sec
This performance scrutinizes the Russian prescription of gender to the nouns in its language and the theoretical belief in the realm of linguistics, that the language you speak influences how you see the world. It is set at the fictitious “Fourth Annual Gender Bender Transformation Championships” in St. Petersburg, and follows the transformation of water (Voda) which is feminine in Russian, into tea (Chai) which is masculine in Russian, and back again.
When I was a student in Frankfurt, a maintenance team cleaned the stairway and corridors of the building in which I lived. Upon leaving, they would prop all the doormats up against the wall so as to allow the floor to dry. Whenever I came home before my neighbour did, I politely placed both of our door mats in front of their respective doors. He, however, did not. So I sewed them together in such a way that when the one was put down, the other would automatically be placed where it belonged.
In this performance, I hitch-hiked to Disneyland Paris over 4 days in a home-made Mickey Mouse costume.
2011, light and sound installation in public space
commissioned for Witte de With, Center for contemporary art in Rotterdam
