#stayathome

In April 2020, during the first lockdown in Berlin due to the Corona crisis, I transformed every single room in my apartment into a camera obscura. I've been working with this phenomenon since 1994, so it was obvious to use it in this time of isolation and compartmentalization. The world outside appears upside down, while the own four walls are the constant. In self-isolation, I sit in this familiar apartment, looking at the world outside. Through the unusual and yet well-known way of looking at the room and world around me, the environment becomes rediscovered and reconsidered. In times like these, the home becomes more important than ever. A place of retreat where you feel safe and comfortable. I know that I am a fortunate person with a home I could choose myself and which I like a lot. I am well aware that not everyone is in such a lucky situation. At second glace the topic of living and housing situations can be discovered in the work and the subject of living becomes deeper: Those who know that this apartment in Karl Marx Allee is one of the ones that the Deutsche Wohnen Group, a huge housing company, was going to buy in 2018, can guess what resonates next to this time-reflecting depiction of an artist's apartment in the listed residential complex. The sell-off was averted with protest actions by the residents, a broad press coverage and the cunning support of the district.