busy

The body is political: moving on the street, in a protected private space, in connection with other bodies or captured in an image. When one encounters and reacts to racialized and marginalized bodies, an (unconscious) political action always takes place. Black and brown bodies, fat bodies, disabled bodies and female bodies are made into the Other in a white patriarchal hetero-normative society and are thus disproportionately exposed to possible discrimination, violence and invisibility - which is based on a history of power structures. With regard to the photographic portrait, we must be aware that it is also a narrative of power: The questions of power relations, representation and access in the form of the portrait will be realized in the work "busy" in the form of self-portraits. Within the self-portrait, I as an artist am author, subject and object - this shifts the power relations and can thus become a powerful and confrontational moment by taking over this power structure and thus also joins a photographic tradition that is relevant and exciting from an intersectional perspective.