In the Forest Behind My Father’s House
2025
2025
In the Forest Behind My Father’s House is a multi-sensory, research-based project that explores ecological collapse, inherited belief systems, and queer embodiment through the forest I grew up next to in rural western Germany. Working across photography, film, text, and installation, the project approaches the forest as a living site shaped by control, silenced histories, and attempts at regeneration. Rather than documenting the place, the work creates experiential situations that invite listening, uncertainty, and embodied presence in a recovering nature.
Installation
Multi-sensory environment with photographs, film, sound, scent, and text fragments.
Multi-sensory environment with photographs, film, sound, scent, and text fragments.
Graduationshow Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague 2025
Thesis Art Book & Letter collection
24 x 20 cm, 256 Pages
Printed on 120g silver and snow white paper,
contained in a book box with 3d printed title
the book holds:
6 Chapters an introduction, letters to the deer,
to the rock of the witches, to the hunter, to
the father and a closure;
A counter-map of the story, The scent of pine
Selected by KABK Graduation 2025 for one of the best designs
Printed on 120g silver and snow white paper,
contained in a book box with 3d printed title
the book holds:
6 Chapters an introduction, letters to the deer,
to the rock of the witches, to the hunter, to
the father and a closure;
A counter-map of the story, The scent of pine
Selected by KABK Graduation 2025 for one of the best designs
Experimental publication combining letters, images, scent and research
Activation
45 Min
Performative reading selection of the book, will accompany the book launch, extending its material into a shared, collective space.
6 Chapters an introduction, letters to the deer,
to the rock of the witches, to the hunter, to
the father and a closure;
A counter-map of the story, The scent of pine
Selected by KABK Graduation 2025 for one of the best designs
Performative reading selection of the book, will accompany the book launch, extending its material into a shared, collective space.
6 Chapters an introduction, letters to the deer,
to the rock of the witches, to the hunter, to
the father and a closure;
A counter-map of the story, The scent of pine
Selected by KABK Graduation 2025 for one of the best designs
Experimental publication combining letters, images, scent and research
Short Film
Narrated in collaboration with Joachim Papenheim
Soundscape by Flurina Mia Häberli
13:28 Min
Zine
24 x 20 cm, 24 Pages
selfpublished
Printed on 120g silver and snow white paper, it holds:
A visual story
A counter-map of the story
A personal letter
The scent of pine
A visual story
A counter-map of the story
A personal letter
The scent of pine
Methods
The project is developed through embodied research and speculative methods. Central to the work is a process of shapeshifting, in which I move between different perspectives: human and more-than-human, hunter and hunted, observer and observed.
Letter-based narration
Listening as artistic method
Repurposing surveillance tools (night vision, flashlights, drones, microscopes)
Sensory storytelling (sound, scent, touch)
Listening as artistic method
Repurposing surveillance tools (night vision, flashlights, drones, microscopes)
Sensory storytelling (sound, scent, touch)
Collaboration
This project is a collaboration — with the forest that raised me, with deer sleeping in the gorse of the new grounds, with local hunters and rangers who shared their world. It holds the memory of the witches’ rock, the labor of my father, the quiet strength of my neurodivergent mother and sister.
Sounddesigner
Flurina Mia Häberli
Type designer
Anne-Dauphine Borione
This project is a collaboration — with the forest that raised me, with deer sleeping in the gorse of the new grounds, with local hunters and rangers who shared their world. It holds the memory of the witches’ rock, the labor of my father, the quiet strength of my neurodivergent mother and sister.
Sounddesigner
Flurina Mia Häberli
Type designer
Anne-Dauphine Borione
Symposium: The Activated Image
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 15.04.2025
organised by The Networked Audience research group and in partnership with Fotomuseum Den Haag my work was a visual responedet to Daria Tuminas
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 15.04.2025
organised by The Networked Audience research group and in partnership with Fotomuseum Den Haag my work was a visual responedet to Daria Tuminas
Photocontest: Inner Visions
Bellcollective x Fotomeyer
Berlin,10.05.2025
Winner of Inner Vision Photocontest at the Female Photo Days in Berlin among 14 other artists and photographers.
Exhibited in Berlin at Fotomeyer.
Installation & Performative Readings
Graduationshow 2025
Royal Academy of Art
The Hague, 03.-08.07.2025
Bellcollective x Fotomeyer
Berlin,10.05.2025
Winner of Inner Vision Photocontest at the Female Photo Days in Berlin among 14 other artists and photographers.
Exhibited in Berlin at Fotomeyer.
Installation & Performative Readings
Graduationshow 2025
Royal Academy of Art
The Hague, 03.-08.07.2025