proximity - failure - a positive attempt
Nadja Degen
For me, the camera is an instrument of perception, analysis and contact but with the help of which I also want to create closeness and connectedness. When I look at my female body and thereby dismiss the moral (vices), religious (sin) and political contents (feminism - anti-repression), I encounter a strange form, an unknown form, which does not accept my world of feelings, which leads its own life. I become aware of the failure to really understand this flesh, my body. I experience myself and my body as separate, foreign to me, alien to each other, a communication between the two is not possible. Thus, my photography is the evidence of a failure of a positive attempt.