Installation, Russian Museum St Petersburg, 2011;

3 mirrored surfaces, each appr. 130 x 60 cm; glass bubbles; old keys.

I tried to express the feeling we get when we realise that our

necessity to permamently make decisions has its targets in an

unknown, “outside” world. Where suddenly reality seems to be only

a very personal construction in our mind. But the doors to this “inner”

world of representation we cannot open with a “real” key – it does

not fit. To express this I locked the keys which I found and collected

during my many travels in glass bubbles which by doing this turned

into invisible prisons. The spectator is still able to see the presence

of these keys which might open the doors but cannot reach and grasp

them. The connection between these “real” keys and the mirrored door

which represents the entrance to our inner world becomes physically

impossible and can only be established by the reflection performed by each of us.