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...in one plane 2006

Installation, 200 x 550 cm.

68 photos, each 20 x 27 cm, acryl/paper, tape, video (with Wolfgang Wortmann), 10, loop

The installation consists of 68 photos that are placed according to a seating plan of a plane. Installations, other than seats are marked with my painting, symbolising my presence, a kind of a dialog - the photos show New York acquaintances looking into my eyes. Their answers to the question What makes you close your eyes? are integrated into the photos. Among them there are some portraits of stars with a penetrating look taken from publicity or Mme Tussauds. Into one of the seats a video is projected with interviews in slow motion.

The title points to the expression: we are all in one boat

Text: August 2006. New York. From every location in the town one can see and hear planes. It is threatening.
New York was an experiment. Can I now live alone or are Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt right to see in communication, existential necessity. I remembered how being shy, I was able to be satisfied when a person I liked made eye contact with me. I asked my acquaintances in New York to look into my eyes. To begin the discussion, I asked them, "What makes you close your eyes?"

  
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