The exhibition opens on the 8th of March – the international women´s day. Could you give us a brief idea about your work at <rotor>? What is your statement there?
In the exhibition I am showing my work I (We) Feel Seen, 2018, which I developed during my residency 2017 in New York City. It deals with representation and visibility of queer-feminist artists with diverse backgrounds. This work gives voice to the protagonists I worked with and opens up a lot of perspectives about diversity in terms of class, race, age and religious backgrounds. It is important to emphasize the role of women in the arts and to support each other in this time of feminist back clash. We have to create and live solidarity between women, queers, women of color, trans people and so on. At one point in my career I decided to focus my work on empowerment for and between people who often don’t get a lot of attention. In New York, I saw how much attention is given to Trump (also through criticism) and how many great queer-feminist artist don’t get any attention. With this work I am creating a kind of (temporal) community or network and I give my energy and focus to people who do great and interesting work. I am getting a lot of positive feedback and invitations to show this work, also international and that shows how important it is to work with this subject in these capitalist times we are living. It’s great to see that many spaces, like the fantastic contemporary art center Rotor in Graz, work in a similar direction. They do a really relevant and high quality program and it was a great pleasure to work with them! I will continue to work with them because they invited me to realize my project in Graz!