Bombenwetter
This group of dimensional portraits is about the complex entanglement of generational trauma and historical guilt.
I am working with letters written by members of my father’s family in 1945 describing the destruction, violence, and rape at the hands of the invading Russian soldiers in their town just east of Berlin while showing ignorance of the atrocities committed by the German people.
I trace excerpts of the letters onto strips of silk organza that are glued over a life-sized 3D print of my face. Other components are portraits of my ancestors who lived through those times and my own old passport pictures from over the years. Once released from the face print, they appear translucent, ghostlike, and ethereal: a strange resurrection of my former selves and relatives I never met, who were both victims and perpetrators of historical events.