Undine Geht, 2025
There Are Plenty of Fish in the Lake, Video "2:10, 2024
Undine Geht is the culmination of a year-long investigation into contemporary relationships, a visual and symbolic journey that explores the dynamics of eroticism in the digital age. The project stems from a desire to examine the complexity of interpersonal bonds and their transformations, shaped today by tools such as dating apps, as well as by ancient archetypes, legends, and mythological structures.
The myth of Undine, a water creature condemned to destroy what she loves, emerges as a central metaphor, embodying an eternal paradox between love and annihilation, desire and revenge. In this context, water becomes an ambivalent symbol of birth and death, of an eroticism that turns into agony.
The poetics of Ingeborg Bachmann, particularly her reflection on the impossibility of love in a world marked by both symbolic and real violence, has deeply influenced this work. As in Malina, where love is simultaneously a force of salvation and destruction, in Undine Geht intimacy becomes a space of conflict and disappearance. Bachmann herself revisits the figure of Undine through a feminist and critical lens, exposing the power dynamics embedded in the romantic narrative.
Works such as Undine Geht, 2024 and There Are Plenty of Fish in the Lake, 2024 (video) were born from this tension: images and narratives in which the body, water, and gaze become devices to portray a crisis of eroticism, suspended between collective imagination and individual experience.