Shadows of a window, curtain, and person at night, Czech Republic, April 2019 (Limited Edition 1 of 15) Photograph

This photograph shows the shadows of a lattice window, a curtain, and the silhouette of a person, a woman. It shows a hotel room in Milan Kundera's country of birth at night. Orange light shines from the outside into the darkness of the room, a bedroom. The picture was taken on a long trip from Freiburg, the south of Germany to South Moravia which is not far from Vienna and Bratislava. I was travelling alone by car, all the long distance on my own by car which I usually don’t do. The first time of my life it felt like starting a road trip as I thought about 150 km from Vienna and Bratislava I should visit these capitals too, than continue to Budapest and finally end in Romania or where would I end? I had taken this meaningful picture of the hotel room fascinated by the shadows e.g. the lattice window, the gap of the curtain in orange, and the situation, having this strange feeling being alone in an eastern EU country after the ‘Fall of the Iron Curtain’. Of course, the artwork also deals with gender roles as subject.