Borders. They separate, protect, define, divide. Where and when does a border begin? What do borders mean? What does protection mean?

The installation 'Die Unterscheidung der Dinge' (The Distinction of Things) takes up the constructed distinction between humans and nature and uses visual language to search for meanings within this duality of humans versus culture. 

To do this, the artist places an image of a forest, printed on thick cotton fabric, upside down on the wall. The edges of the fabric are unfinished, just as the print was delivered from the print shop. The excess fabric at the sides acts as a subtle frame, partially standing on the floor.  White and coloured industrial straps and cords are stretched in front of it. Some are attached directly to the wall, others to two banisters that have been stripped of their function and attached vertically to the wall at the sides of the forest image. The ribbons have also been stripped of their function: the industrial ribbons, which are otherwise used as load-bearing straps or barrier nets in the military, as well as the gracefully shiny curtain cords, which are stretched across the entire image here as boundary lines to the supposed nature.

The opposing poles of materiality and their origins intertwine, connect or separate from one another. The landscape image as a metaphor for wilderness, which no longer exists in this form but is cultivated alongside our society, clearly demarcated, no longer capable of instilling fear and dread in anyone. The forest as a protective space thus takes on a different meaning; it appears censored, aestheticised, no longer accessible.