Offene Ateliers Brandenburg - Zuhause in Brandenburg
Since moving to Berlin in 2017, I’ve been fascinated by the homes of the villages that surround it in Brandenburg. They are of a specific shape and style that I was only familiar with but had never seen in person: simple yet elegant, consisting mainly of a rectangular box with a triangular-shaped roof. I have since moved to Brandenburg myself and now live in one of these typical Brandenburg farmhouses.
Though this series is formally an exploration of the shapes of these objects that represent a specific house architecture rooted in the state of Brandenburg, it is also an exploration of the mystery surrounding all homes and what takes place within their walls.
The home is a mysterious Objekt—an object mostly only seen from the outside, whose interior spaces we will never know. These homes forever remain closed to us. To enter an unfamiliar home is to be transported to another world, much like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
This series uses the familiar shape of the home to explore the unknown hidden behind everyday objects. The objects I’ve depicted here are to be looked through rather than looked at. Instead of just peering into the window of an unfamiliar home like a voyeur, these images are meant to be portals where the entire shape of the home transports the viewer to someplace else in time and space.