Visual Artist.
Lighting Designer.
Do you prefer to think, or to hope? Do you lean on solid empirical knowledge, or let yourself be carried away by the narrative constructions of your own world? Where does the boundary of thought lie—and beyond it, is there still room for hope, or does fear already speak up? How often do we ask ourselves these questions at all?
This single-channel video installation—shown as part of the exhibition RE?—draws on Max Frisch’s Fragebogen (Questionnaires). In that book, Frisch’s brief, seemingly simple questions redirect the reader’s attention to the deepest attitudes and blind spots of identity. The video employs the same strategy: its soundtrack poses empirically framed questions that simultaneously open an existential layer of inner narrative.
Thinking here represents rational analysis, the effort to name and verify reality; hoping functions as a counterpoint, acknowledging uncertainty, accepting the possibility of failure, yet allowing the imagination of a future state. Fear emerges when neither reason nor hope suffices—becoming both a catalyst for change and a barrier to further decisions. Across the video’s duration we travel a “three-way path” through these states of mind, each one complementing and conditioning the others.