FOTOHOF Salzburg 2024

In this intimate photographic series, the artist stages himself in a state of comple-

te dissolution — physically, psychologically, and nationally. Wearing a Bavarian

blindfold — a symbol of homeland, conservative morality, and cultural identity —

he surrenders to anonymous, older male bodies. The blindfold renders him blind

to origin and reality, while the camera exposes every trace of shame and boundary.

The series explores themes of voluntary submission, sexual self-erasure, drug-indu-

ced trance, and the collapse of identity. The “insemination” by the older, married

man becomes a metaphor for the penetration of traditional values by queer bodies

— for the intrusion of desire into the scaffolding of family and societal order.

The artist becomes a vessel, a projection surface — emptied, possessed, permeable

— navigating a visual language that shifts between raw corporeality and symbolic

readability.