The audio installation points to the shower as a place not only for cleaning but for silence and reflection too. Permanent shower noises can be heard out of a shower cabin which is connected to a motion sensor. As one closes in and enters the cabin, reflections of cleaning habits and rituals come out of the shower head. The stories go beyond the process of taking a shower. What possibilities are there to escape everyday life, to take a step out, and even take a step into your very own self and get some rest?
The interviewed people are talking about shower rituals, the importance of being clean and their imagination of a “perfect shower “.
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A miniature forest, covered with snow, is presented at 4,80m height, on the looking platform of a hunting hide. A camera is monitoring the winter landscape, and submits the picture live on a screen in the gallery. The shrunken forest at an exposed height typifies the wonderful reversal of space and height in Wonderland.
The Polaroid prints of my grandfather are accurately marked with date and time. You can see the family during their visits, grandchildren, great-grandchildren: “Everything …OUT”, my grandfather is saying. He, after living 50 years of his life in this house, moves into an old people`s home. What remains of a human life? Boxes, piles of paper, cupboards filled with all kinds of stuff collected over the years…
„Miss Bates seems to take no notice. The long decayed mother of Alfred Hitchcocks motel owner Norman Bates, sits motionless, with her back turned to the viewer. The skull shows no expression and the monotone swearing and moaning, copied by the mental ill son, escapes through or is heard through the speaker. The artist of the installation “Mother”, Cornelia Bengsch, makes shivers run down your spine: The knife, she had placed under the chair of the mother, has disappeared.” Quotation LVZ, Mark Daniel
*1974 in Leipzig
1992 – 2000 Studies in English Philology and Journalism (MA), Universität Leipzig
Since 2004 Freelancer for audio-visual media services
Since 2004 Studies in Media Arts, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2006 Media Arts Class of Prof. Helmut Mark
Since 2007 Intermedia Class of Prof. Alba D’Urbano
2006 „Hinter der Kamera“ Listhaus, Leipzig
2011/12 Kurzfilmprojekt „Supermom Kick-off“
2010 „Chain of Fools“ HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2009 „Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen“ District Court, Leipzig
2008 „Habseligkeit“ 24-hrs-Exhibition, GalerieRieRiemann, Leipzig
2008 „100% Health“ art-gallery of HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2006 „Phantome“ 24-hrs-Exhibition, GalerieRieRiemann, Leipzig
2006 „Gefundenes“ Kunstraum Kuhturm, Leipzig
2006 „Wunderland“ art-gallery of HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2005 Rundgang, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2004 Photography, Library of Universität Leipzig
2003/2004 Installations & Photography, „Goldfish“, Leipzig
2001 „body/check“ 24-hrs-Exhibition, GalerieRieRiemann, Schauspielhaus Leipzig
2001 „Sieben“ 24-hrs-Exhibition, GalerieRieRiemann, Leipzig