My work deals with surreal still lifes. I aimed to incorporate two themes into the staged world: On the one side plastic as material, which production and disposal causes massive damage to the environment and endangers our health. On the other side I wanted to use plastic as a symbol, that represents artificiality in the behaviour of humans.
In particular I intended to connect plastic in two different dimensions, as a material and as a metaphor, representing the artificial beauty ideal of women nowadays.
In the composed still lifes I used plastic objects like bags, jewelry and flowers. In addition I decided to use aphrodisiacs, such as bananas, lobster, chocolate and fragrance, in order to connect the most sexually charged children‘s toy these days: the Barbie doll. By adding the Barbie doll, focusing specifically on the body, I created a symbol that reflects the illusory and idealised beauty of contemporary society.
Colors as gold, pink, violet and orange emphasizes this artificiality. My photographs are implying my personal and insistently view of the world.
Plastic becomes the epitome of our consumption. Plastic as material, on and inside people. Plastic is the central motif in still lifes, as decorative items, Barbie and color, but in the compositions you can also discover real things, as food, flowers and women.
My surreal still lifes oscillates between the animation of the artificial and the mortification of the living, so that an illusion is developed, which merges the plastic and genuine elements into each other. Almost no visible differentiation of its individual elements can be determined.