Traitor refers to a process-oriented investigation of my family. Over the course of several years, an open body of work has emerged, composed of collages, paintings, textual fragments, and archival material.
The individual components – images, letters, notes – do not form a linear narrative, but rather a web of overlaps and ruptures that reveals the tension between intimacy and distance, memory and self-assertion.
The resulting installation functions as a constructed space of memory. It addresses the interrelation of autobiography and artistic construction, as well as the ethical tension between analysis and loyalty.
The title Traitor points to the ambivalence of this process: the need to explore, while confronting the sense of guilt that comes from betraying something inscribed within oneself.