The Forest Behind My Fathers House
2024—2025
The Forest Behind My Father’s House is a multi-sensory, research-based project that weaves together identity, grief, ecology, and memory. Rooted in the collapsing monoculture forest of my rural German childhood, the work traces how bodies—human and more-than-human—are shaped by inherited systems of control, and how something new might emerge from within that collapse.
Guided by a shapeshifting figure I call the being, I navigate the landscape as a space of ritual, resistance, and reconnection. I collaborate with hunters and deer, my father and the witches’ rock—a site of historic persecution. Photography becomes a performative act; tools like microscopes, drones, and night vision shift how I see and am seen.
Through film, scent, sound, text, and image, I build a world where personal narrative and theoretical inquiry meet — asking what it means to belong in a place that never truly held you, and how we might reclaim presence in a world that often demands our disappearance.
This project resists resolution. It invites to listen where there is silence, to feel where there is tension, and to witness identity — not as fixed, but as something unruly, tender, and always in transformation.
Symposium: The Activated Image
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 15.04.2025

My work was shown in The Activated Image,a symposium organised by The Networked Audience research group and in partnership with Fotomuseum Den Haag my work was a visual responedet to Daria Tuminas
With: Andrea Stultiens, Azin Nafarhaghighi, Daria Tuminas, Donald Weber, Julie de Ruijter,
Matteo Montaldo, Nurul Huda Rashid, Patricia Kühfuss, Randa Mirza, Sarah-Rose Antoun, Will Boase.
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.
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