Two years ago my father died of a brain tumour. He had fought the disease for two years. The most innovative treatments and best medical medical care available had helped him to expand his life expectancy after the initial diagnosis. After I found out that his doctor had retired, I felt the urge to hold onto the latest scientific knowledge and therapies that gave us hope until the last moment. Some of the therapies were only ever conducted with him and haven’t been applied ever since in his department. I’ve been told there is only one hospital in Germany now applying this method, the so called PDT. On the other hand, I felt that I had found a way to express my grief through artistic processing of images. From the very beginning, I’ve imagined my project as an experiment and a search exploring the limitations of images and sound . How do I give (my) pain a new expression? What remains, what's fading away when remembering my father? How do I process certain terms that I derive from the treatment of brain tumors and bring them into tension between art and science (e.g. reflection)? What is art? What is science? How does matter change when exposed to the extreme, such as heat or acids? “Tissue” is an experiment at reconstruction.
The exhibition will consist of two video installations. A three channel installation “Between the probes” and a two channel installation “Under the microscope”.
