GALLERY
2014–2015

The Gallery series began during one of my visits to the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin, where once again, there was hardly anything to look at. So I started noticing the guards — standing around uncertainly, wandering aimlessly, staring into space. I think I began to empathize with them a little. What must it be like to work as a guard there? What are their lives like, and what do they think about all of this? I became fascinated by the whole atmosphere of those vast gallery spaces, where these people have to stand and “watch over” something that feels almost temple-like in its “sublimity” — yet emptied of content, almost reduced to nothing. Naturally, this can lead to reflect on the parallels between empty gallery spaces and the emptiness of contemporary art — or even the general sense of emptiness that defines our times.