Sensing One’s Place

This body of work is based on a passage from Bourdieu’s Distinction. It revolves around the concept of the „sense of one’s place“—the spatial and social positioning of working-class milieus. The text describes how attribution works both externally and through self-perception. Through this process, power structures and sociological hierarchies are maintained: the dominated accept and reproduce their roles. Each work in this series explores different questions about one’s own social origins. Two of my earliest analog photographs (Constellation) depict deeply personal places from my youth, already documenting class divisions. Membrane (-..) refers to my time working in construction during my apprenticeship, reflecting on the often impermeable masculinity and its heteronormative dominance, within which homosexuality could not exist freely. Insulation Break takes a more distanced perspective, questioning the visibility of workers: where are they, concretely? Melted Hegemony references the makeshift break beds on construction sites. Its title and the cast aluminium material allude to Antonio Gramsci’s theories — are they still relevant today, or have they already been surpassed?