Formal or thematic analogies generate multifaceted layers of association, which address the circumstances in which the historical images were produced, their preservation, as well as their link to the present day—and always also examine her own medium of photography.
[9] Dachziegel, Backstein, Wasserrohr (gewidmet der Roten Waldameise, Strunkameise, Kerbameise) (2020–21) connects to the culture of remembrance and the reappraisal of National Socialism from the climate-change driven perspective of the twenty-first century.
Adopting the collaborative perspectives of ant, artist and site, the work contributes to a diversified understanding of entangled histories and futures on the example of the Ravensbrück memorial in Brandenburg, Germany.
Bringing together an assemblage of archival materials, photo documents, literature and found objects, Pechblende investigates concepts of scale, proximity and distance in relation to radioactivity and the body.
[11] Pechblende (Chapter 1) incorporates a range of museum objects, including tools, chains, and clothing, that together refer to the toxic history of uranium mining and its impact on the body of the miner.
Duskdust (2016) is an artist book and a series of monographs, which takes as its starting point the former industrial site of limestone mining at Furilden peninsula on the northeastern coast of Gotland, Sweden.
The mohair woven tapestry depicts multiple fragmented images from the early 20th century as a projection onto the mountainous landscape of Magnitogorsk, a city marked by the iron and steel industry, its radical take on life and work and formerly irrepressible enthusiasm for progress.
RAY (2013–14) examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano, Texas, in the late 1800s, focussing on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing and on how a narrative loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source.
One Time One Million (2006–2009) departs from the technical inventions of Swedish photographer Victor Hasselblad and his love of birdwatching, setting in motion the entangled histories of (aerial) photography, ornithology and migration.