Sitting in the Closet , 2020
series of 5 b/w photographs, 120 x 120 cm, photo: Julia Kujat

In Merklein's work, the complex inner life is brought into a multi-layered narrative by means of alienating body-space relationships. In the black-and-white image-text work "Sitting in the closet," the collapse is described on a textual level as something that is invisible but resembles a ruin on the inside. Through the excavation, symbolically not only a life is rearranged, but also things are assigned and repaired. On a pictorial level, this fragmentation is shown on the one hand by a hand that grasps a door like a spider and on the other hand by an anthropomorphic, reclining body in an abandoned apartment, where one does not know how to correctly locate the bottom and the top.

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Sitting in the Closet (3D) , 2020
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Sitting in the Closet (3D-text) , 2020
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Der wunde Punkt / The sore spot (3D) , 2021
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Hand mit Ei / Hand with egg with spoken text, from the series „Phlegma Loop“ , 2009/2010
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