SCHNEE IM SCHÄDEL
"Snow inside the mind. Yet it is raised like a banner."
SCHNEE IM SCHÄDEL (SNOW IN THE SKULL) does not depict an emotional eruption. It presents a system under tension.
Faces operate as architectures rather than identities. Mouths become passages, eyes become openings, skulls become containers of layered realities. At the center stands a steady gaze. Around it, myth, conflict, surveillance and fragmentation coexist without hierarchy.
Deep inside the head lies a nocturnal landscape — water, shoreline, snow, a ferris wheel forming a circular anchor. It is not an escape, but an internal reference point.
The work is painted on a plastic trash bag — thin, reflective, unstable. It reacts to light and temperature. It is not a fixed canvas but a membrane under pressure.
This membrane is held at the top and bottom by two colored wooden rods. The structure recalls Japanese hanging scrolls or parade banners carried in public procession. What is internal becomes displayed. The disposable material of a trash bag transforms into a standard.
The mind under pressure is lifted and shown. SCHNEE IM SCHÄDEL does not explain events. It shows how perception holds, even when structure fractures.
SCHNEE IM SCHÄDEL is part of the upcoming exhibition BETROGENER TRAUM and belongs to AREA 04 — Chaos.
Photography © Alex Wendler