TRIEB/DRIVE

Spatial Instalation in cooperation with Belinda Winkler, 2021

When is it going to happen for you?
You don’t have time forever. Your biological clock is ticking. You should finish your education first. Find the right man. Marry him. Be a good mother. Give up your freedom. Put your career on the back burner. Your body is made for it. You’ll regret it if you don’t do it.

Do you feel driven? Or is it a drive you want to pursue? Let yourself be driven. Drift into a role. Do it like the animals do. Drive out anew. Drive  life forward. Drift off / Abort?

With the spatial- and sound installation together with Belinda Winkler (textile artist and designer) female feelings in the context of wanting children and motherhood have been adressed. Social pressure, with which women* are very often confronted in this context, and physical urges, which confront this, were sensually experienced in the installation. The need to give life and the discontent to have to dedicate oneself
to this topic because of gender were illustrated. Two opposing personal positions, the pleasant feeling of having an experience that is granted to you as a woman and the pressure of being forced into this role cliché unintentionally were here brought into light and room and thus became a topic of discussion.

It was part of the group exhibition “HETZ” of the art association “ROTER KEIL”. Together with the “Kunstfreundeskreis Graz” an artist talk and also a public discourse about social pressure and the different perspectives on the “desire for children and society” was organized. The project was supported by the “Department Women and Equal Opportunities Graz”.

In 2022 a new version of the room insallation was part of the exhibition “roleplay” in Dresden from BIAS FLINTA* Projects.