Flügel wachsen auch im Dunkeln is a story about the search for love and freedom, about family, history, and heritage. A story about painful decisions and good intentions that leave scars, about how things repeat themselves not only within one life but across generations. A search for how to break destructive patterns so that our sons and daughters, and the generations after them, no longer have to carry them.

My work is driven by an intangible feeling of being uprooted and a contradictory longing for peace and a home, connection and intimacy, that clashes with the desire to stay unbound and untamed, and with a constant need for pushing boundaries, novelty and stimulation, the longing for peace and adrenaline at the same time.

To tell my story, I combined portraits of my daughter with alternative techniques and archival images of my sisters and me growing up in Berlin close to the Wall.