Queer as a Daffodil
Since 2021, film photography, audio, text, installation, performance lectures
The series explores queer identity, politics and ideology in contemporary art while examining what it means to be queer today. This is achieved by capturing artists’ gestures and expressions of queerness in staged portraits that are based on their character along with references to their work, art history, and queer culture.
A dialog is developed through audio or video interviews that focus on the questions: what does it mean to be queer and how do you bring queerness into an art form?
The daffodil, a defining motif throughout the portrait series, represents self-love and rebirth — associations that recall the experience of coming out as queer. The word daffodil however was once a slur against queers and therefore plays not only an essential aesthetic role but also an artistic attempt to reclaim the word as a representation of queer people’s contributions to the art world.
Audio interviews and installation add dimension in an exhibition space. The audio gives voice to the artists portrayed while creating an emotional connection with the visitor; this fosters both active and passive dialog on the topic of queerness and queer art.
Notes on Queer
(No date), interactive installation, text, notebook, performance lecture
The notebook installation, “Notes on Queer”, is my personal notebook offered to visitors during an exhibition to share their thoughts on “What does it mean to be queer”. The participation was remarkable, and includes long and short passage as well as abstract drawings as a means of queer expression.
The notebook installation has been presented during Together/AND Apart (Fotogalerie Wien, 2021), Queer Art Spaces (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, 2023) and Unsichtbar? Unaufhaltsam! (kärnten.museum, 2025) and consists of over 25 pages of entries.
Two performance lectures, titled “A Reading from Notes on Queer,” were held during the exhibition Queer Art Spaces Vienna and Queer in the City. During both performances, the audience and I collectively read entries from the notebook, while also expressing our thoughts and emotions they evoke within the space.
