When
I perceive and try to interpret the world I rely on my body, there is
no way without it. The body seems to be something natural, but images
of the body and self-perceptions are products of history. They are
governed by continuous changes and cultural interpretations.1
I
am interested in the idea of the body as something artificial, as
something, that's culturally produced and reproduced. When I paint I
do exactly the same: I produce images of bodies based on imaginations
and ideas. In essence these figures are artificial through and
through.
Some
of them pose in an old fashioned and unnatural way, others display
their not - proportional limbs, some of these bodies almost look absurd,
but in spite of all this artificiality to me they are very real.
1Benthien
Claudia, Haut- Literaturgeschichte- Körperbilder- Grenzdiskurse
(2. Auflage) rowohlts enzyklopädie im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag,
Hamburg, 2001, p. 14
