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 Mutter statement 

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Since the beginning of my artistic research, the subject of mother and femininity and the associated clichés that I encounter in various plays, films, advertising, social networks and in everyday life have accompanied me.
In my photographic work with my mother, I fall back on stereotypes with visible ambivalence in order to question them.
Like in the photo series "Krallenmutter", in which you can see the struggle the mother has, since her role carries so many constraints and expectations imposed on her by the majority of society. For that reason I staged a series of pictures with my own mother and played with clichés. In the series, my mother portrays a housewife and mother who is fleeing her prescribed role, trying to break through societies’ constraints and ideas in order to be free.
At first, she represents the exact stereotype of a housewife through her clothes such as the cooking apron with pink flowers, the iron and the backdrop such as the front yard and a single-family house. But on closer inspection, one discovers her discreet clawed fingers and the skin-colored latex mask, which makes one get a sense of what’s to come. In addition, there are no human children to be seen, but balloons with caricatural faces that give the viewer a sense of horror. So the apparent idyll is pure imagination. (Julie Batteux, 2019)








“Krallenmutter erkennt ihr eigenes Spiegelbild nicht mehr”, photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Krallenmutter raucht nicht vor den Kindern, sondern vor der Hecke”, photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Krallenmutter bügelt jeden Sonntag zum Tatort”, photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Krallenmutter fragt sich nach dem Sinn des Lebens”, photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Krallenmutter hängt zum Trocknen ihre Kinder an der Wäscheleine auf” , photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Krallenmutter´s Fürsorge zu Tisch”, photography, dimensions variable, 2019










“Hausmutter I”, photography, dimensions variable, 2016









“Naturmutter I”, photography, dimensions variable, 2015











“Meermutter I - IIII”, analog photography, dimensions variable, 2017










“Sandmutter II”, analog photography, dimensions variable, 2017










“Sandmutter I”, analog photography, dimensions variable, 2017