bleach me, 2020

"What we consider 'human' is a normative regulation of social behavior which is not constant. The constraints and exclusions that these regulations entail are as variable as the basic idea on which they are based. Conventions and their symbols and codes are dynamic. I work with materials that stand for and can be read as codes for social and societal phenomena. I mainly build installations with everyday materials, amorphously formed or art-historically borrowed foreign bodies. These materials offer a high range of association, creating access through recognition despite the new association. A central theme in my work is power, its structures or abuse. I work on themes that interest me on the basis of related materials and try to question them with the help of deconstruction. I deal with individual materials sometimes for years until I have dissected them for myself both physically and content-wise." – Rebekka Benzenberg