Kitchen and Home Alone

I am playing with the idea of food. For me it's not a "bad habit" but a passive aggressive way to deal with gender stereotypes. "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach", my grandmother used to say. But her conditioning attempts failed. In my photo series “kitchen” I am interested in the absurd and decontextualized use of kitchen objects on and in relation to my body. Inspired by contemporary Pop Art and “Alice in Wonderland” I playfully experiment with the paradox of "non-work" of traditionally female domestic activities. The visual imagery shifts between design and advertising which results in ambivalences of humor and melancholy, of obsession and playfulness. Meaningless occupation of the woman with household utensils can neither be rationalized nor be reinterpreted as an "expression of affection”.-We are killing time and we are bored to death. There is a connection between boredom and aspects of depression. One can distinguish between situational boredom (the longing for a specific event to happen) and existential boredom (the longing for desire in itself caused by total meaninglessness). Trying to while away the time we start playing, repetitively and monotonously. When playing becomes compulsion, time stretches like chewing gum.