With the title »Geh, Gegangen«, (Going, Gone), I formed this cluster of twelve works around a sense of displacement, the physical act of moving, seeking bearings in alien surroundings in twelve steps.

     Westwerk was invited  in late 2017 to do a group show in Kiel in the artists-run space Haus 8/Atelier im Anscharpark. We called our joint show »Ich bin deine Mutter« (I am your mother). It was the flipside of an exchange between the two groups, an artistic dialogue on the conditions – financial, social, institutional, personal, emotional, physical – affecting artistic production today.

     On my first visit to the gallery I was  struck by the graphic floor tiling of the venue, formerly the kitchen for a naval hospital. As such a strong spatial feature it was a challenge to any visual work showing there. It prompted me to include a photograph I had taken in Seville in the early 1990s, at a time when I only took slides. The tiling pattern is also echoed (in varying amplitude) in a foyer of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, in the floor of a Bordeaux cathedral, in the shop window of a Halal butchers in Aarhus, on the wall of an operating theatre in a disused clinic in Odder, Denmark, in the cobbled street in Paris beneath graffitied hoardings and in the chalked geometry for playing hopscotch in the street of Choroni, a coastal village in Venezuela. And not least of all, in a shot of the