Headdress

127 x 127 cm each / oil on canvas

This Series is dealing with the tension between what an image actually shows, and the story behind that image. I´m very interested in this gap. An image always gives only a fragment of a bigger story, therefore it is not very precise in telling, not to say manipulative. In the first view this series shows rather funny images of people covering their head in strange ways. but I think one can feel, that there is something serious going on. The templates for these paintings come from german newspaper and internet press. The backround of the images are held in a photographic out-of-focus style, the protagonists of the images are depicted in a more painterly manner, maybe more subjective. I wanted to leave the objectivity of the photograph to the backround of the painting, and express the human less neutral, more subjective.

The images are from protesters from Egypt / Cairo, saving their heads from the stones that are being thrown.