The installation gathers selected photographic portraits of women from the 1920s to the 1970s that I collected in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. With its Polish, Russian, Hispanic and Jewish communities, Williamsburg is one of the most gentrified districts of New York City.

The color and black-and-white photographs show women in ordinary surroundings, positioned centrally in the picture, their gaze turned towards the camera. I reproduced the amateur photographs photographically true to the original and mounted them in found, uniformly painted frames. In the installation, these are arranged edge to edge like a sound-wave line.

In Herstory I follow the idea of whose story is usually overlooked in conventional historiography. I examine these contemporary documents in terms of the pose presented in the picture. I investigate what they say about social perceptions of gender roles and to what extent the emergence and popularization of amateur photography has influenced the staging of "femininity".

78 individually framed photographic reproductions, C-Prints, photo corners, paper, frame sizes 17 × 14 cm to 37 × 28 cm. The installation is 18 m long.
2010 – 2020