Eén keer per maand maakt hard//hoofd een keuze uit het werk van een talentvolle beeldend kunstenaar die het waard is om te volgen. Deze keer een selectie uit het werk van Kathrin Klingner (1979, Duitsland).
Door Kathrin Klingner
Door Kathrin Klingner
Where are we looking at? "Hands attacking their owners" is from a notebook full of phenomenons concerning the human body. Fingers growing inwards, cutting off an arm that keeps growing back, touching your own brain, teeth turning into cookies; stuff like that. The children with the fish are the very romanticized depiction of the countryside-childhood-adventures I had with my friend Manu. One of our main occupations was catching fish with a plastic bag. I love that drawing a lot. It has the whole beauty, cruelty and seriousness of playing.
Can you tell us more about the way you work? I use photography and drawing and usually have drawing-phases and photo-phases. Normally, I drag an idea around for a long time, become a bit obsessive, don't really know how to put it in an image, become unbearably moody and -when it finally works out- it's the highlight of the week. In the meantime, I have a constant output of images that do not belong to anything. Weird stuff, clueless things, in the worst case stupid and/or boring. All these things go straight into one of my many shoe boxes. Once in a while I empty them and look at the images and sometimes I find a treasure.
What fascinates you? I am mostly fascinated by things that are hard to put in an image (and even harder to put into words): imaginary friends, diffuse fears, vague memories and stuff that is funny, dark and a bit painful at the same time.
Whose work do you admire? Oh... Difficult. I like Henry Darger's drawings and the photos of Wolfgang Tilmans and the work of Rebecca Horn. But generally: instead of going to galleries I rather go to the Natural History Museum and look at dinosaur skeletons and sheep-embryos in a jar.
