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THE LOCALS


Being a local in most cases is a quality a person only bears in the eyes of

a stranger. One may conform with or deviate from the features that sum up

to shape a particular local. The sensation of belonging, however, does not

naturally come along with that status, nor is it a matter of individual choices.

And to belong can always mean both: an experience of comfort or one

of repression.


Walking their dogs, sporting their D+G shades and often resembling apes,

THE LOCALS informing this series act as prototypes of the contemporary

Middle European. They are free in many ways, citizens that do not have to

cope with war or existential material miseries. Sometimes fearful or angry,

and often rather sad, they appear and pass by the observer.







from: THE LOCALS, 2009

ink, pencil on paper, 42 x 30 cm