Earth Shamaness (2023)

A shamaness in trance. The head tilts upward, the eyes half-closed — the body present but the consciousness elsewhere. Antlers grow from her head, marking the deep bond between the human figure and the living world around her. The surrounding green merges with skin and limb: she is embedded in nature, continuous with it, a connector between the human community and the ecological forces it depends on.

White face paint bisects the features — threshold technology, common across shamanic traditions worldwide. It signals that ordinary identity is suspended and the crossing is open. Cord bindings anchor the wrists: the body held in place while the shamaness travels. The word seiðr, the trance practice of the Norse völva, derives from Proto-Indo-European *seH2i-: to bind.

Exhibition history 2025–26 — Magic and Ritual, Finalist Exhibition, 13th Bernd and Gisela Rosenheim Foundation Art Prize, Haus der Stadtgeschichte, Offenbach am Main