35 | Berlin | Multidisciplinary artist
Year:
2026
ANNA
These images were created as part of the exhibition Fluid Femininity. I used various pieces of jewellery — because for me they represent opulence. I wanted to worship my body, to feel like a goddess. They are a visual representation of the divine. A dedication to my own femininity.
The result inspired me to take Body Relics further — and to ask what happens when other people bring their own objects. Objects with real stories. I wanted to know what personal meaning does to these images.
There are days when I feel very free in my body. And then there are days when I don't. I like showing myself naked, because I simply have no problem with nudity. And I enjoy playing with my femininity — for me, the two go together.
But I am also a woman who knows what it means when your own body suddenly no longer belongs to you. As a child, a strange man groped me in a swimming pool. In my youth, I was touched by strangers in clubs in southern Germany as I walked past, as if that were completely normal. And once, someone put KO drops in my drink and tried to rape me. These are just the extreme examples from my life — there are certainly many more if I were to go further back. Who gives you the right to do something like that to me?
But I have always known — back then and even more so today as an adult woman — that none of it had anything to do with me. I simply refuse to limit myself just because someone else can't control themselves. That's why I show myself. That's why I have no problem with nudity. This is mine — and I won't let anyone take it from me.
Feeling free in your own body should be a given. But it isn't — because we grew up in a system that values bodies differently. This is not something we are born with. It is learned. And in the end, everyone suffers from it — even those who deny it. I hope we can recognise that. That we stop valuing bodies differently. That one day we can all truly feel free — in who we are, and in what we choose to show.
