Sensing One’s Place

2019–2024, various dimensions, mixed media

Breaking, 2023, PU insulation board, photography C-Print, 122.5 x 12 x 60.5 cm
Membrane - how Jean Genet saved my life, 2022, plaster board, cast plaster, 13 × 4 × 18.5 cm
Constellation – Picture 1: Where I got educated / Picture 2: Through our landlords‘ fence, 2009/2023, glass, photography, 158 × 19 × 38.5 cm
Snagged Maturity, 2019/2023, safety net, cast aluminium, cable tie, ca. 300 × 20 × 20 cm
Melted Hegemony, 2018/2024, cast aluminium, PU insulation board, 19 × 38.5 × 120 cm

This body of work is based on a passage from Bourdieu’s Distinction. It revolves around the concept of the „sense of one’s place“—the spatial and social positioning of working-class milieus. The text describes how attribution works both externally and through self-perception. Through this process, power structures and sociological hierarchies are maintained: the dominated accept and reproduce their roles. Each work in this series explores different questions about one’s own social origins - based on the artist's personal experiences.