Die Invasion
The film Die Invasion was created in collaboration with Tom Theunissen.
The project deals with the idea of the traffic cone. It has a massive impact on our culture and our lives, influencing our freedom, our perception, our thinking and our actions. It is a meme that all of humanity understands and has agreed upon—without knowing where the idea originated. The traffic cone influences our position in the free world. Its spread is comparable to that of an invasive biological species.
The film is a metaphorical journey with absurd and philosophical reflections. It is a search for origin, meaning and purpose that leads from Earth to the universe and back again.
Silver Surfers Reise #1-3
The series ‘Silver Surfer’s Escape’ refers to a character from the Marvel Comics series ‘The Fantastic Four’. The objects, which are intended to evoke beach houses as symbols of places of longing, represent assumed stages in the life of the Silver Surfer. The figure of the Surfer stands for total freedom and also for complete loneliness. Freedom as humanity’s great utopia and, at the same time, its failure.
Horizons
The most interesting about the horizon is what eludes perception – the space that may lie beyond the curvature of the Earth and the impossibility of ever reaching it.
The images are painted on reflective photographic paper. This creates a supposed spatiality of the colour fields, a potential extension into infinity behind and the real space reflected in the plain surface.
Communication breakdown
The photographs of the first moon landing in 1969 are symbols of utopian thinking. In ‘communication breakdown I’ a binary code is stamped, developed by NASA for establishing contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. If one does not know how to read the code, a confusing pattern emerges, as depicted in ‘communication breakdown III’.
The simple series of additions stamped into ‘communication breakdown II’ is based on the ‘radioglyph’ scheme. A radioglyph is a picture sent across interstellar space by means of a code carried by radio waves. It was mentioned by the British mathematician Lancelo Hogben in a lecture given to the British Interplanetary Society in 1952. Hogben called this scheme ‘Astraglossa’ or ‘First Attempts at a Celestial Syntax’.
All human attempts to make contact with extraterrestrials have failed to date. Every utopia also contains its opposite – dystopia.
Into the Unknown
About Dreams
Convivència
The Convivència project consists of a 9-part series of painted photographs, a text banner and two films created in collaboration with Tom Theunissen. The exhibition Vacances amb Franco (Holidays under Franco) was initiated by Bolit, Centre d’Art Contemporani Girona and the Museu de l’Empordà in Figueres, Spain, where it was shown in 2024. In 2025, it moved to the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin.
The film ‘Der Un-Ort / El no-lloc’ (5:33 min.) is an effigy of oblivion, symbolized by the ruins of the Colònia Penitenciària in La Sabina on Formentera. From 1939 to 1942, this was the site of a penal camp run by the Franco regime.
The film Koexistenz / Convivència (14:40 min.) deals with a strange, locally very limited phenomenon of the dictatorship in Spain – the coexistence of hippies and locals under the Franco regime on the islands of Ibiza and Formentera. It contrasts the light-heartedness of the hippie world with the heaviness of Francoism and the traditional rural way of life.
