between unyielding limits and nearly infinite freedom
Video-installation
Plexiglas, glass, wood, A3 and A4 prints
2021
44' on 5-channel (2021), 92'(english)/98'(german)single-channel (2024)
Closely intertwined conversations flow like subtitles onto oversized forms enclosed in Plexiglas. They hardly allow a firm hold of clear, definite identities beyond the fact that all, for diverse reasons, came to use self-given names for themselves. Navigating between names made a given and a drive for agency, the speakers evoke their experiences, addressing questions, struggles and possibilities opened by their choice to rename themselves.
The forms themselves, manifesting the often heavy bureaucracy involved for a legal name change in each participant’s country of origin, are printed out mirrored, thus rendered inaccessible and only decipherable in transparency.