ICH GEGEN ICH

ICH GEGEN ICH is a condensation chamber of inner voices — a visual nervous system that thinks, feels, remembers and reacts at the same time.

 

The silk paper acts as a second skin over the wooden support. It folds, resists, distorts the drawn lines. The painting does not rest on a neutral surface; it must negotiate with a fragile material. Identity therefore appears unstable, pressured, in motion.

 

BECKER does not depict a single subject but a system. Figures observe each other, interrupt each other, dissolve and reappear. The work constructs a surveillance architecture of the self — a space where every impulse is commented on.

 

What unfolds is a psychological atelier:

Fear disguises itself as humor.

Desire apologizes.

Shame performs.

Courage exaggerates.

Bodies want to reveal themselves — and retreat in the same breath.

 

Sexuality here is not provocation but vocabulary. It maps what wants to emerge and what prefers to hide.

 

The wooden support provides structural grounding. The silk paper remains vulnerable. Between stability and fragility, the tension mirrors the theme: the self is never singular. It is layered, contradictory, observed.

 

ICH GEGEN ICH is not a portrait. It is a process. A work that asks:

How many versions of me exist at once?

And which one is the one I call myself?

 

ICH GEGEN ICH is part of the upcoming exhibition BETROGENER TRAUM and belongs to AREA 03 — Construction.

Photography © Alex Wendler