Identity - Home 2013-2017
Fine Art on Dibond 30 cm x 45 cm
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"Identity" is used as a term "for the characterization of persons".
The focus is on "which characteristics in the self-understanding of individual dignity or groups are considered essential." (Wikipedia)
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Identity has to do with origin = home. Home is the "land or the place where one was born and raised, or feels at home through permanent residence." (Duden)
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August Sander showed with "The people of the 20th century" a "cross section through the present time and our German people".
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The work "Identity" aims to depict a cross section of the inhabitants of North Rhine-Westphalia.
A snapshot of the people who currently live here.
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All contributors do not live in their homeland -
due to distress, existential constraints or because of professional and family situations.
My request to each person was to bring five personal items on the topic of "Identity - Home" and to sit in a feeling of dignity.
I did not make any more specifications.
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I show internationality as something familiar,
and that the relationship with the home unites us all.
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