The status transfer is a process that opens up unforeseen possibilities for our emotional world. It frees us from impairments in order to face situations and life tasks.

On closer inspection, I keep discovering terms such as transformation. Overcoming. Refusal. Scenarios that are condensed in my work into the above-mentioned status transfer. I explore the change in behaviour through the influence of objects. Ritual objects, charged with mysticism, symbolism and traditional ways of seeing. Objects that are not chosen by people, but that people appropriate. Like guardian spirits that appear uncalled on the scene. Sometimes involuntarily, mostly welcome, in order to experience a transformation through them. This is about mechanisms of seeking protection, of creating a psychological distance from what has been seen, experienced or even just an inkling of it.

They are disguises that allow us to exist in a different reality through transformation. They can be used to endure, even sit out, scenarios that are unspeakable because they are silent. Ultimately, it is about millennia-old forms of protective spirits. Early paintings, tribes, rituals and even costumes. Through the transformation, the body frees itself from human limitations, learns to endure, to sit still in order to withstand influences.

Thus a cloak, a simple wooden staff, a mask or another ritual object becomes a miracle weapon that makes its wards invulnerable, even immortal. This total exaggeration of one’s own possibilities gives rise to unimagined power. Resilience in its purest form.