Red cards

Mounted on cards these clippings undergo a long process of dyeing, pressing and preserving. Cards turn out with fragments or even empty, others show the mould of a credit card. As a teenager I often asked my parents who had experienced the Nazi regime in Germany: ‘What did you know then?’ I intend to document what I have known (and not known) in my lifetime.

I focus on how women are shown for this. (for the last year i find mostly children and there are hardly ever men shown in these pictures)
I use cards 21x15 cm in size, which i process like fabric with red dye - the colour goes through the paper - by this i am controlling less then a painter does.
many cards show no image or fragments which show the traces of this process.
And while drying them again i mold sometimes the shape of a money card into the cardboard.

I have produced about 200 cards by now, they are more an object like a card in old library/archives used to be referring to a real book, they are not ment as a grafic product to put in a frame.
There are still more cards to come.

This "archive" is part of my work called "personal practise" by which i generate answers for the question i expect to come: "what have i known at the time?"

I started to develop containers for about 50 cards which are made out of textile material and flexible when empty.

Since i am interested to show work in places which are not necessarily art institutions as such i try to imply nomadic, flexible strategies:
the cards can be touched, they can be displayed on a wooden strip leaning against the wall lined up in eye level ,
the amount of cards to be shown can vary depending on the intention and situation, location
They have no citation, no signature. I can vary the atmosphere by selecting what cards i put together.